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Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil and political rights, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights move ...

to London in December 1964 on his way to

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to receive the

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. The

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pacifist Marion Glean, then a graduate student at the

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, arranged with

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for King to meet a group of Black spokespersons and activists at the Hilton Hotel, where an ''ad hoc'' committee was formed for a movement to "agitate for social justice and oppose all forms of discrimination",Terry Coleman
"From the archive, 12 December 1964: Martin Luther King stops off in the UK"
''

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'' (UK), 12 December 2014. with CARD formally being launched at the next meeting on 10 January 1965. CARD's founding members included Jocelyn Barrow as well as Marion Glean, politician Anthony Lester, London County Councillor David Pitt, historian C.L.R. James,

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and the sociologist Hamza Alvi.Kalbir Shukra
''The Changing Pattern of Black Politics in Britain''
London:

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, 1998, (p. 20). Lawyer Richard Small served as CARD's press officer.

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Thirty Years On
- Anthony Lester
Baron Pitt of Hampstead & CARD - UK Parliament Living Heritage
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