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In Atlanta, Georgia.
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He Changed Peoples Life (:
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Martin was ordained a minister in. Dexter Avenue Baptist church.
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He graduated from Morehouse College.
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Black citizens in Montgomery begin a one-day bus boycott to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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At 9:15 p.m., while King speaks at a mass meeting, his home is bombed. His wife and daughter are not injured.
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Martin Luther King once called Birmingham "the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of this country
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Addie Mae Collins 1949-1963
Cynthia Wesley 1949-1963
Denise McNair 1951-1963
Carole Robertson 1949-1963 http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htmRobertson 1949-1963 -
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all.
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I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.
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in Memphis, Tennessee. Trying to help the striking garbage workers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. has now been dead longer than he lived. But what an extraordinary life it was.