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On the recordJuly 3, 1977
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Presidential Medal of Freedom Announcement of Award to the Rev. Martin Luther King, It., and Dr. Jonas E. Salk.

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