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ATLANTA (AP) — The daughter of the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. exhorted the nation on King's federal holiday to act out against injustice but to heed her father's message of nonviolence.
The call came amid a day of scattered protests over recent police deaths of unarmed black men that has shaken the U.S.
The Rev. Bernice King told a crowd in her father's home of Atlanta that much has been done to end injustice but much remains.
President Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, sought to focus on encouraging a new generation to engage in service to others.
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