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The 96 pages that link to Martin Luther King Jr., each with the reason it gives.

• Alice WalkerRelated: Walker worked on voter registration and civil rights campaigns during the movement he helped lead.

• Poor People's CampaignRelated: He proposed the campaign and was assassinated weeks before its Washington mobilization.

• ProtestRelated: His leadership made protest a central strategy in the United States civil rights movement.

• Birmingham, AlabamaRelated: He joined Birmingham demonstrations and wrote his jail letter there.

• Civil Rights Act of 1968Related: His assassination on April 4, 1968, intensified demands for passage of fair-housing legislation.

• History of the United StatesRelated: His leadership brought national attention to campaigns against segregation and discrimination.

• Abraham Joshua HeschelRelated: King and Heschel formed a public alliance grounded in moral and religious opposition to racism.

• Black theologyRelated: His Christian resistance to segregation exemplifies theological reflection within the freedom struggle.

• Ku Klux KlanRelated: Klan violence repeatedly targeted the movement for which King became a prominent spokesperson.

• Thích Nhất HạnhRelated: Thích Nhất Hạnh's appeal helped King publicly speak against the war.

• African-American ChristianityRelated: His ministry linked Black Christian preaching with organized campaigns for civil rights.

• Do the Right ThingCompared with: His quotation in the ending frames nonviolence against Malcolm X’s defense of self-defense.

• Fred ShuttlesworthRelated: Shuttlesworth recruited King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference to support Birmingham demonstrations.

• Louis FarrakhanCompared with: King’s nonviolent integrationism contrasts with Farrakhan’s separatist and nationalist positions.

• Mahalia JacksonRelated: Jackson sang at King’s events and supported the civil-rights movement.

• Ralph AbernathyRelated: King and Abernathy organized together from the Montgomery bus boycott through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

• Ralph BuncheRelated: Bunche’s public opposition to racial discrimination placed him in the same civil-rights era and cause.

• Tommie SmithRelated: Smith’s protest took place amid the civil rights struggle King helped lead.

• U.S. presidential election of 1968Related: His assassination in April 1968 sparked unrest and sharpened debates over race and public order.

• University of BostonRelated: He earned a doctorate in systematic theology from the university in 1955.

• Coretta Scott KingRelated: Her husband’s assassination made preserving his public legacy a central part of her activism.

• Cornel WestRelated: West draws on King’s prophetic moral criticism and vision of social democracy.

• Howard ZinnRelated: Zinn supported King’s movement and interpreted its history through the actions of ordinary people.

• Nichelle NicholsRelated: King urged Nichols to remain on Star Trek, recognizing Uhura’s significance to Black representation.

• Silent GenerationBroader topic: Born in 1929, he became a defining voice of the cohort’s civil rights activism.

• Tolstoyan movementRelated: King named Tolstoy among the influences that helped shape his commitment to nonviolence.

• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.Narrower topic: His national leadership and activism made him the target whose murder transformed the strike’s course.

• Deep SouthRelated: His organizing in the Deep South helped drive the modern civil rights movement.

• Stokely CarmichaelCompared with: King’s integrationist strategy differed from Carmichael’s growing emphasis on Black self-determination.

• 20th centuryRelated: His leadership helped make equal rights a defining political struggle of the century.

• Ossie DavisRelated: Davis participated in civil rights events alongside King and delivered the eulogy at his funeral.

• African AmericansRelated: His organizing helped turn demands for African American equality into a national political movement.

• American political historyRelated: King’s leadership helped mobilize pressure for landmark civil rights and voting legislation.

• Christian leftRelated: His Christian leadership joined racial justice to economic and political demands.

• Desegregation in the United StatesRelated: His organizing helped build mass pressure for desegregation and federal civil rights legislation.

• Dick GregoryRelated: Gregory joined civil rights campaigns alongside King and supported the movement’s nonviolent struggle.

• Frances Fox PivenRelated: Piven and Cloward drew on the civil rights movement when analyzing disruptive collective action.

• History of human rightsRelated: His movement linked domestic civil rights enforcement to broader human-rights ideals.

• James Earl RayRelated: Ray’s assassination of King made him a defining figure in the leader’s death.

• Strom ThurmondCompared with: King’s campaign for federal civil-rights protections opposed the segregationist politics Thurmond represented.

• Ben CarsonRelated: Carson invoked King in public remarks about opportunity, responsibility, and American society.

• History of AlabamaRelated: King helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott and Birmingham campaign.

• Jesse JacksonRelated: Jackson worked with King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was present at the Lorraine Motel when King was assassinated.

• OdettaRelated: King praised Odetta’s singing as a powerful expression of the civil rights movement.

• Saul AlinskyCompared with: King’s movement shared grassroots organizing with Alinsky’s work but grounded action in a distinct moral and religious vision.

• United States of AmericaRelated: His movement pressed the federal government to enforce equal rights.