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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Pictures of the historic civil rights leader

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  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. poses at City Hall with his wife Coretta Scott King and New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner on Dec. 17, 1964. Wagner had given King a medallion declaring him an honorary New Yorker.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Al Raia
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leaves the press room at Kennedy International Airport on Dec. 16, 1964. King had just arrived from Sweden after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Behind King is a spokesman, Cleveland Robinson.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Dick Morseman
  • The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rides a bicycle on Fire Island on Sept. 2, 1967.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Stan Wolfson
  • The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. talks to a packed school auditorium at South Side High School in Rockville Centre on March 26, 1968, when he toured Long Island.
    Photo Credit: Newsday / Bill Senft

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. sent shock waves around the world 51 years ago.

The civil rights leader was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, while visiting Memphis, Tennessee, in support of black sanitation workers fighting for better pay.

In commemoration of his life, take a look back through King’s legacy.

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