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He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King wanted black and white Americans to live happily together.He was the leader of the Civil Rights movement demanding equality for black people
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Many Southern states in the U.S.A., like Georgia, were segregated.
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Rosa Parks, a black woman, was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. A white man demanded her seat and she refused. She was arrested
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For a year, black people refused to use the buses. Finally, segregation on the buses was declared illegal. In fact all segregation in Alabama was stopped!
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In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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. His speeches were famous and convinced many people that he was right. But he continued to have enemies and on April 4th, 1968, he was assassinated
