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Tuesday 18 November 2014

WETERN UNION TO MARTIN LUTHER KING FROM NIGERIA 1968

K.O. Mbadiwe contacts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Telegram, February 16, 1968
London, England to the United States of America
Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, Nigerian nationalist and politician, informs Dr. King of his planned trip to the United States. Mbadiwe ensures that he will contact King upon arrival. Dr. King and Mbadiwe were working on a proposal for a solution to the Nigerian-Biafran civil war. A peace mission to Nigeria was planned for April 1968. Dr King died on the 4th of April 1968


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