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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s presentation of events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement in "Why We Can't Wait" focuses on the activities surrounding the 1963 Birmingham lunch-counter sit-in demonstrations. In this study guide the use of the word "Negro" will be used, as it is the word that was used in the text and in the historical time period. The short historical introduction of two young Negro children trying to...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The African American minister and Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. He was one of the most importan... Read more

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was ordained a minister at his father's church in 1947. King gained national recognition in 1956 for organizing a boycott a... Read more

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. Following graduat... Read more

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