Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, who became an advocate against racial discrimination and was later a critic of the war in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. He became by far trhe most important black leader of the 1960s, and since his assassination in 1968, he is the single most important exemplar of liberalism in recent U.S. history. | Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, who became an advocate against racial discrimination and was later a critic of the war in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. He became by far trhe most important black leader of the 1960s, and since his assassination in 1968, he is the single most important exemplar of liberalism in recent U.S. history. |