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[[Image:MLKing..gif|right]]
Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was by far the most important black leader of the 1960s.
Reverend '''Martin Luther King, Jr'''., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was by far the most important black leader of the 1960s. Since his assassination in 1968, he has been the single most important exemplar of liberalism in recent U.S. history.<ref> Alonzo Hamby, ''Liberalism and Its Challengers: From F.D.R. to Bush'' (1992)</ref>
==Education and early career==
==Education and early career==
==Foreign policy==
==Foreign policy==
By 1966 his attacks on the [[Vietnam War]] led to a break with [[Lyndon Johnson]] and thed labor unions that had been his base of support in the white community (along eith the churches).
King founded the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]].
King founded the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]].