Martin Luther King's Life

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of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were married in June 1953, and the following year an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was only 26 years when he led his first protest, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. This all started with a young women by the name of Rosa Parks. One afternoon as she walked to the bus stop and waited patiently, for the bus to pull up she, saw that the back half of the bus was full and many people were standing, she decided to tell that bus to go. When the next bus came, she noticed that the black section was full as well. She was forced to sit in the middle of the bus. The law stated that if one white person was to sit in the middle section of the bus the black passenger would have to move. At the next bus stop there was a large group of white people. The y filled the front of the bus and there was one white man left ...

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victory a new found pride that the African Americans discovered from Martin Luther King Jr. After a month Dr.King started receiving hundreds of hate letters and telephone calls threatening him and his family lives. Finally, the threats became reality while Dr.King was at the mass meeting he received a notice that his home had been bombed. He rushed home to find the front part of his home blown out luckily his family was okay.

In May king lead a march to Birmingham and he encouraged teens and school children to join. The streets were filled with the song of hope and love. The protest was broken up and King was arrested and jailed. The letter from the Birmingham Jail was a letter, ...

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