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    Dr.King's Life

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    Go beyond the dream to discover the man. A SPECIAL PRESENTATION H i s t o r y.c o m DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What do you think Dr. King means when he says that time can be used destructively or constructively? Why did he believe that the Civil rights movement was an example of using time constructively? 2. How do you interpret the phrase “human progress never rolls on the wheels of inevitability”? Can you think of an example to support your answer? 3. Why do you think Dr. King decided to

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    Alex Luu “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.‚ The Autobiography of Martin Luther King‚ Jr. A Baptist minister….. A civil-rights activist? He was many things. We all know him. Family? Textbooks? The internet? Whatever it was‚ we knew him. It wasn’t because of his job. It wasn’t because of his role. It wasn’t because of his color. It was how he was as a person. Out of many‚ he impacted the United States greatly. He brought us understanding

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    Martin Luther King Jr.

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    Nathan Grass Ms. Grace English 9/Period 2 18 October 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. One name changed the face of America. One man had an ambitious dream. That man was Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that one person could change everything. MLK Jr. was the most important man in the Civil Rights movement. He experienced racism at a very young age and later was the biggest contributor to the Civil Rights movement until his life came to an abrupt end. Martin Luther King

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    Rosa Park’s refusal to give her seat to a white male has also played a significant role in the shaping of the Africa American culture with dealing with segregation and where the African American people are today. “On December 1‚ 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider‚ thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites. When she was jailed‚ a black community boycott of the city’s buses began. The boycott

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    Martin Luther King’s birthdate was on January 15th‚ 1929 and his demise was on April 4th in Atlanta‚ Georgia. His mission was to achieve undistinguishable rights for everyone no matter the race‚ colour or culture. His leadership was vital to the Civil Rights Movement’s accomplishment in ending the segregation of African Americans (primarily focused in the southern regions) in the united states of America. He became the core leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial discrimination and the

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    people have done is completely justified; however‚ some others have gone as far as harming supporters of the other party‚ causing huge traffic jams along with vandalism and it is even a safety hazard for the protesters.     Students from Richard Montgomery High School held a protest in response to the election. A fifteen-year-old boy wearing a hat with Trump’s slogan “ Make America Great Again‚” was assaulted by four other students as stated by Massimo Rick from Washington’s Top News. That is not

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    Martin Luther King Jr. believed that conflict needed to be handled peacefully because violent actions gain no progress. King led peaceful protests‚ marches‚ and most importantly the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott was significant because it was the first large scale pacifistic stand to racial segregation‚ and became a basis for all non-violent protesting. Martin Luther King also won a Nobel Peace Prize. King’s actions

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    including protest marches‚ boycotts‚ and refusal to abide by segregation laws. My project is on the key players of the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Martin Luther king was an American clergyman and civil-rights leader. He was born in Atlanta‚ GA January 16‚ 1929. .He was a Morehouse College In 1951 he received a degree from Crozer Theological Seminary and enrolled in Boston University Ph.D program. In 1954‚ King became minister of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery‚ AL. He began

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    Selm Movie Analysis

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    Selma was a movie released in America in the year 2014. English was the language used because it connected with American history. This movie was admired by many viewers because of its rich details about the struggles African American’s faced during the1960s’. The movie was directed by the very accomplished Ava DuVernay. She is an African American director‚ film marketer‚ film distributor‚ and screenwriter. The film industry is dominated by Caucasian men. It took a lot of fearlessness‚ on DuVernay’s

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    put to an end. It continued on in a movement known as the Civil Rights movement. A movement that is still yet very live today. The movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1956 and lasted for about a year. There was an injunction from the local courts prohibiting the segregation of busses in Montgomery‚ starting the era of the Civil Rights Protests. Shortly after the boycott King started the Southern Leadership Conference which advocated for nonviolent

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