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Martin Luther King Jr was perhaps one of the most influential persons of our time. Martin Luther King Jr was a man of many accomplishments. He was one of many African-American to stand up for the civil rights of the African-American people. He did many things, like leading the bus boycott of 1955, founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and becoming the president of this organization and leading a march in Washington D.C in which he gave his most famous speech.
The boycott in December of 1955 was one of the first nonviolent Negro demonstrations. This boycott was lead by Martin Luther King. He accepted the leadership of this demonstration. The boycott came about because of what had happened to Rosa Parks on the buses. The boycott lasted 382; days just a little bit more than a year. On December 21, 1956, the Supreme Court of the United State declared laws that established segregation on buses to be unconstitutional; that Negros and whites would ride the buses as people......

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