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    second child of Martin Luther King Sr and Alberta Williams King. Along with my older sister‚ the future Christine King Farris ‚ and younger brother‚ Alfred Daniel Williams King. Michael King Sr. stepped in as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. He became a successful minister‚ and adopted the name Martin Luther King Sr.I grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood‚ then home to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country. I graduated in 1948‚ King entered Crozer Theological

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    taught to treat African Americans as dirty people who deserved to be separate. It created a prejudice that would take years to overcome‚ to completely be unselfish again. Caucasian Americans were very wrong in their thinking and they never thought about how it made African Americans feel. The African Americans of this time period were struggling to overcome this new time where they were treated as outsiders‚ as if they were not a part of the American people. Every single human being is uniquely different

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    Martin Luther King by Indira Gandhi Prime Minister Of India Speech at the presentation of the Jawaharial Nehru Award for International Understanding to Coretta Scott King in New Delhi‚ India on January 24‚ 1969. This is a poignant moment for all of us. We remember vividly your last visit to our country. We had hoped that on this occasion‚ Dr. King and you would be standing side by side on this platform. That was not to be. He is not with us but we feel his spirit. We admired Dr. King. We felt

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    Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful man with good intentions for civil right. He wrote an extensive letter to eight clergymen who condemned the timing of the civil rights movement on April 16‚ 1963‚ from a jail in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Even though the letter was addressed to the clergymen‚ the message was geared towards a larger audience‚ especially King’s “Christian and Jewish brothers” (King). King believes that without direct action‚ the rights for African Americans could never be achieved. He

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    this time period with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and what he did. Dr. King fought for equality for African Americans‚ victims of injustice‚ and the lower class citizens. His protest methods were in comparison to Gandhi by being nonviolent and peaceful. While Dr. King had many important parts during the movement‚ many people remember his speech he gave in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington‚ D.C. in 1963 and it is referred to his “I Have a Dream” speech. Dr. King gave the speech in front

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    Shaina Gilbert Prof. Conway English 101 November 26‚ 2013 It is an obligation since elementary for children to learn about the U.S. history. However‚ some historical books feed our children and society inaccurate stories to cover some lies that our prideful country‚ the United States of America is hiding from us. To paraphrase‚ Hade talks about The American Girl Collections how the stories in those books are so inaccurate that the United States tends to hide the issues‚ or to focus less on

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    Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to thousands of protestors at the March on Washington D.C.‚ in 1963. The objective of King’s is to motivate people to stand against racial discrimination. In order to achieve this purpose‚ the author employs the rhetorical techniques of metaphor‚ symbolism and anaphora‚ which are clearly illustrated in his fourth paragraph of Norton Sampler 8th edition by Thomas Cooley no page 635-636. The most frequently used rhetorical

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    the Civil Rights Movement‚ Martin Luther King chose to take that role to solve the unjust oppression that was occurring. King possessed the characteristics of a great leader; believing in equality‚ non-violent civil disobedience and a strong call to action. Through these‚ King was able to be a successful leader to the oppressed and had a strong influence across the world. The drive of the Civil Rights Movement was the segregation and prejudice that minorities faced. King writes “A Letter from Birmingham

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    Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech "I have a dream" conveyed very meaningful and powerful images within the speech. Many images that make you not only imagine but feel the pain the black men and women felt back in those days‚ the discrimination‚ and hatred white men had towards the black. But for what reason? Because they weren’t white. They didn’t see them as equal and assumed they were better. This was all over a skin color. Dr. King speaks about that it is said "All men are created equal" but they

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    Unlawful are critical impediments to the fight for justice. Wrongful arrests rid an individual of the freedom to campaign for the rights of those to whom injustice is committede. Martin Luther King was arrested over twenty times over false allegation (De‚ and Brown‚ 50) . His unlawful incarceration in Birmingham prompted was as a result of his decision and actions to fight for the injustice that was happening in the city. His incarceration

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