Los Angeles — William Andrews dances during the Kingdom Day Parade honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Los Angeles — A parade participant reaches out to Lyndasha Peters, 9, in green, Shawnte Pitts in white and Dwayne Clark, 3, in black.
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Los Angeles — Ashton Logan plays with the Frederick Douglass Academy Elementary School drum squad.
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Los Angeles — Members of the Centennial High School marching band.
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Los Angeles — Desiree Glover leaps behind a group of young women watching the Kingdom Day Parade.
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Los Angeles — Union members wave from a float during the Kingdom Day Parade.
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Montgomery, Ala. — King, third from right; his wife, Coretta; and the Rev. D. F. Reese lead the way to the state Capitol on a walk demanding voter registration rights for blacks. Thousands participated in the walk, which began in Selma, Ala.
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Los Angeles — The Rev. John Burt, seated at far right, listens as Martin Luther King Jr. addresses 15,000 people at the L.A. Coliseum during an interfaith rally in 1964. Burt helped organize civil rights rallies in Los Angeles.
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Memphis, Tenn. — A police officer uses a nightstick on a young person after the breakup of a march led by King. Black leaders accused the police of brutality. Police said they did what was necessary to restore order.
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Memphis, Tenn. — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel a day before his assassination. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King and Ralph Abernathy.
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Montgomery, Ala. — King, center, rides a newly integrated bus Dec. 21, 1956. In front of King, left, is the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, and to King's right is the Rev. Glenn Smiley of New York.
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Atlanta — Coretta Scott King, with her daughter, Bernice, attends the funeral of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., on April 9, 1968.
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Montgomery, Ala. — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed by his wife, Coretta, after he leaves court in Montgomery, Ala., on March 22, 1956. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses in a campaign to desegregate the bus system, but a judge suspended his $500 fine.
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Los Angeles — About 18,000 people crammed into the Sports Arena in 1961 to hear King speak.
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Selma, Ala. — King, at right in the foreground, holds hands with his wife, Coretta, on the first day of a five-day march to the state Capitol in Montgomery.
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Washington — Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
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Birmingham, Ala. — Police intercept King, front, and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy after the two men led a line of demonstrators into the business section of the city.
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