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How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when they delivered their 'I Have a Dream' speech?
Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 years old when they delivered their 'I Have a Dream' speech, on 28 August 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr. died 4 April 1968 at age 39 — 5 years after this milestone.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
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