Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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King's Lieutenants
A photo taken at a strategy session in Albany, Georgia shows Wyatt Tee Walker (second from left), executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South and Andrew Young (to Walker's left), one of King's most trusted advisers, as well as a future congressman and mayor of Atlanta.

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