Martin Luther King PHOTOS from the 1960s

Martin Luther King's birthday is a holiday celebrated on the third Monday in January.  (Dr. King was actually born on 15 January 1929.)

Here are some photos of Dr. Martin Luther King from his years of greatest achievement, the 1960s.

(Photo from the collection of the National Archives.)

(Photo by Warren K. Leffler, now in the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.)

(World Telegram and Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico.)

(Photo credit: Gary McCarthy/WENN)

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(All Lyndon Johnson photos by Yoichi R. Okamoto, from the collection of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.  Photo with Robert Kennedy by Abbie Rowe, from the JFK Library and Museum.)