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Trump Congratulates Nation on Martin Luther King Day

© AP Photo / Evan VucciPresident-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 - Sputnik International
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US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday congratulated the nation on Martin Luther King Day and promised to ensure that all US citizens were "fully included in the American Dream."

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Martin Luther King was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He advanced civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. He was assassinated in 1968. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Birthday of Martin Luther King is observed on the third Monday of January each year.

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