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FILE PHOTO March On Washington Celebrates 40th Anniversary
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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Meet Tiana, Disney’s first black princess
Nov. 26: Little girls lining up in New York and Los Angeles for the limited preview of Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” will witness a first: a princess who happens to be African-American. NBC’s Chris Jansing reports.

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  Martin Luther King Jr.
See the civil rights leader in speeches and marches from Alabama to Washington.

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