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Martin Luther King: Civil Rights Patriot


Nearly three centuries ago, African slaves were brought to the New World and put
into slavery. They were treated more cruelly in the United States than in any
other country that had ever practiced slavery, and ever since its prohibition,
African-Americans have fought oppression. Martin Luther King Jr., would aid
immensely in this fight. He was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. His father,
Martin Luther King Sr. Was a Baptist minister and also preached for civil rights.
By the time he was 17 he had decided to follow his fathers footsteps, so he
himself was ordained as a minister. After his graduation from the Crozer
Theological Seminary, when he began postgraduate work at Boston University, he
studied the works of Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi, from whom he derived
his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. He moved to Alabama to become pastor
for a Baptist church. Just after he received his Ph.D. in 1955, King was asked
to lead a bus......

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