Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot
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Nearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New World and put
into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any
other country that had ever practiced slavery, and ever since its prohibition,
African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King ....
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.... formed after Rosa Parks was
arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white passenger. Throughout the 381
days which the boycott lasted, he was arrested and jailed, repeatedly threatened,
and his home was bombed. The boycott ended later that year when the Supreme
Court outlawed segregation in public transportation. This was his first victory
and alone made Dr. King a highly respected leader. When he went to India in 1959,
he studied Gandhi's principle of "Satyagraha" or nonviolent persuasi ....
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