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    what it would be like to be a slave? I think it would be horrifying. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted everyone to have the same dream of freedom and equality for everyone that he had. SO that we may all have the privilege to live a free and normal life in the future. MLK’s speech was very compelling because he used such wonderful grammar and sentence structure that it gave him authority and credibility. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to replace violence and hatred with lovet fit together. These also

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    Malcolm X vs. Martin Luther King Jr. If it is possible‚ as far as it depends on you‚ live at peace with all men. These words spoken by Christ can be found in Romans 12:8 that refer to living in peace with everyone. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are both men that fought and petitioned for equality for black people. Did they both have different approaches and views on how to obtain said peace and equality? Absolutely. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in the pacifist way for reaching the level

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    different from each other. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ stood up for lots of people and also fairness. Cesar Chavez stood up stood up for workers rights and people. Martin Luther King Jr and Cesar Chavez both are very famous but‚ similar in different ways. These people are similar and they happen to also are very different. Some similarities about Martin Luther King Jr.‚ and Cesar Chavez is that they both sacrificed their lives for people. This is true because Martin Luther King Jr.‚ got shot and Cesar

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    People such as Dr.Martin Luther King‚ Ida B. Wells‚ Rosa Parks and the students of Little Rock‚ known as Little Rock Nine are all major historical figures in the civil rights movement. The struggle to gain the rights that african americans now have was extremely difficult Civil rights activist faced mistreatments such as threats‚ violence and verbal abuse. Civil rights activist went through

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    At 6:01 p.m. on April 4‚ 1968‚ civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper’s bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis‚ Tennessee‚ when‚ without warning‚ he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King’s right cheek‚ traveled through his neck‚ and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. Violence and controversy followed. In

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    Martin Luther King was a civil right activist and Christian preacher who expressed the reasons behind the reasons of why african americans were protesting for their civil rights through a letter to the clergymen in Birmingham. King goes on to express his argument by giving an idea on what african americans go through in a society where police brutality and denial of freedom is present in the everyday lives of african americans in Birmingham. He pushes his purpose even further by getting the clergymen

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    Good Friday in 1963‚ Rev. Martin Luther KingJr. led 53 blacks on a march in downtown Birmingham to protest the cities segregation laws. The Birmingham police arrested all of the demonstrators‚ including King. This caused the clergymen of Birmingham to compose a letter pleading with the black population to end their demonstrations. This letter appeared in The Birmingham Newspaper where the imprisoned Martin Luther King read it (Amistad Digital Resource). In response‚ King drafted a letter that would

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    Passage A of Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter to Birmingham is composed of specific stylistic strategies that effectively convey his central idea that the black community’s protests against segregation are justified as it has suffered from widespread societal restraint for centuries throughout history. King’s argument in this passage is facilitated by means of a syntactical structure composed of a long list of the abundant struggles that have faced blacks as well as an appeal to the legal and moral

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    Thinkers The two famous thinkers in the week four Electronic Reserve Readings are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates. Each had separate aspirations and both men contributed a significant amount of growth in the Twentieth Century. Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have gone “down in history as individuals who changed the way the world worked personally‚ socially‚ and politically”. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential civil rights activists and speaker during his time

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    Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X both had very different solutions that they proposed to resolve the problem of racial tensions in the United States at the time. Even though their perspective and ideas were almost complete opposites‚ they had some things in common‚ such as both Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X both backed up their ideas with religion. Despite their differences‚ both King and Malcom X both wanted to secure equal civil rights for African Americans‚ even if they had different ways

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