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	Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Prize for Peace from Gunnar Jahn, president of the Nobel Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway.
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Breaking Barriers: U.S. minority leaders
From the first Hispanic governor (in 1853) to the first African-American to be elected president, learn about how ethnic barriers have been broken in the United States through the years.

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Nov. 1: David Plouffe, Barack Obama's presidential campaign manager, shares memories of Election Day with NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press.”

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