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The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in Brown v. Board of Education -
King was first introduced to the concept of nonviolence when he read Henry David Thoreau’s Essay on Civil Disobedience as a freshman at Morehouse College -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama -
She was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)