Martin Luther King Jr

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activities in the south. But later in 1963 he was put into jail during a successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities in Birmingham, Alabama.
Martin later became the youngest person ever to get the Nobel peace prize. In 1965 . led a drive to register black voters in Selma, Alabama. But to get this drive protesters did a five-day march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
He combined his civil right compains with a strong hand against the Vietnam war because he believed that the money and effort which was spent on the war could have been used to beat the discrimination against African Americans. With this some black leaders felt that Martins statements against the war diverted public attention from the civil rights.
Early in 1968 Martin traveled to Memphis Tennessee to support a strike of poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, 1968 Martin was assassinated by a sniper, by the name of James Earl Ray. Martin Luther king JR’s death shocked ...

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