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Louis Armstrong & Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Armstrong was a major financial supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists.

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  1. Louis Armstrong Friend: political allies Martin Luther King, Jr.

Louis Armstrong

  • b. Aug 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • d. Jul 6, 1971, New York, New York, USA

The trumpeter and singer is widely credited with starting modern jazz.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • b. Jan 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • d. Apr 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

American civil rights leader, probably the most important single figure in the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s.

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