Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dark Day in Birmingham
King stands with others at a funeral for four young girls killed by a bomb set off the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In his eulogy, King preached that the girls were "the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity."
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