This video provides a 3 minute summary of the key events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the American civil rights leader. It outlines that he was a Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement from the 1950s until his assassination in 1968. His advocacy helped bring about legislation outlawing racial segregation.

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