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WORLD ART MEDALS United States of America, Martin Luther King, 1969, a bronze medal by M. Courbier, three-quarter bust left, reverse hand, PRIX NOBEL, etc, 68mm (CGMP p.465; cf. Simmons FPL 11, 341). Extremely fine (£40-60)

Revd. Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968), eloquent black Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia, led the civil rights movement in the US from the mid-1950s until he was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, 4 Apr. 1968. Best remembered for organising a massed march on Washington in 1963 and his brilliant ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, King became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. His leadership was fundamental to the civil rights movement's success in ending the legal segregation of blacks in the South and other parts of the USA