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Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968)  The night before his assassination in April 1968, Martin Luther King told a ... The union, which had been granted a charter by AFSCME in 1964, had ... While Lawson kept King updated by phone, other national civil rights leaders ... After a divisive meeting on 30 March, SCLC staff agreed to support King's return to Memphis.
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil Rights Activist, Minister - Biography.com  Feb 18, 2016 ... Martin Luther King Jr. led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement from the ... of racial inequality and his campaign with other Civil Rights leaders for equal ... as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. .... It was here that King made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech,...
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - Wikipedia  The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great ... On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of .... On June 11, President John F. Kennedy gave his famous civil rights address ... Wilkins and Young initially objected to Rustin as a leader for the march,...
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Malcolm and Martin, closer than we ever thought - CNN.com  May 19, 2010 ... Both leaders expressed admiration for one another; Malcolm X sought meeting with King; Photo taken of their only meeting has now become iconic ... That encounter on March 26, 1964, lasted only a minute. ... meeting in his book "Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. | Biography & Facts | Britannica.com  Jan 29, 2016 ... Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the ... Click here to search ... His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ... as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. .... B. Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
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Coretta Scott King - Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist ...  Jan 15, 2015 ... Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of 1960s civil rights ... the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she would meet her future husband, famed civil rights ... On April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony outside of the Lorraine Motel in...
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Sample Chapter - National Council of Teachers of English  36. Father: Visualizing the Character. 39. 3. Pat Mora. 50. Sensory Imagery. 50 ... In 1968, the year of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Nikki. Giovanni was ... His headstone read ... Dream speech (FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST), and include com- ..... and I hear all these words a lot from my peers, not as insults but.
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Letter From Birmingham City Jail (Excerpts) | Teaching American ...  Martin Luther King, Jr. April 16, 1963. Full Document; Academic Standards ... While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent ... and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to call a ... not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure.
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The I Have a Dream Speech - The U.S. Constitution Online ...  Mar 3, 2010 ... The text of the I Have a Dream Speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963. ... In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. ... police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. .... they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King And The Movement He Led ...  Apr 4, 2016 ... The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying the night he was killed ... He has this report on the anniversary of Dr. King's death. ... King had come to Memphis to support black sanitation workers, who ... And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Black History - HISTORY.com  Find out how Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech became an ... King sought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and .... that year he was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine and in 1964 became the ... right to votefirst awarded by the 15th Amendmentto all African Americans.
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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King And The Movement He Led ...  Apr 4, 2016 ... The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying the night he was killed, has been ... On April 4, 1968, 48 years ago today, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was ... In fact before the strike started, two African-American workers were killed when ... I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man.
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About Dr. King | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent ...  During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership of the modern ... While others were advocating for freedom by any means necessary, ... In 1957, Dr. King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization designed to provide new leadership for the now...
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Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech : NPR  Apr 3, 2008 ... Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. Hours before his assassination, he spoke of the injustice felt by the city's ... in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968, the night before his assassination. ... And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia  Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the ... On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through .... During his junior year, he won first prize in an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks Club in Dublin, Georgia. Returning...
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I Have a Dream - Wikipedia  Martin Luther King Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. ... Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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On This Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers I Have a Dream Speech  Martin Luther King Jr. gave his now famous I Have a Dream speech at a civil ... In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor ... the Southern Baptist preacher began by painting a grim picture of a nation in ... The civil rights movement that culminated in the Voting Rights Act in 1965 is...
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Ralph David Abernathy Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy (born 1926) was the best friend and trusted assistant of Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he succeeded as ... struggle and sealed their close friendship, which lasted until King's assassination in 1968. ... in Atlanta to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and press...
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Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963 < 1951 ...  Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963 ... It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. ... Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. .... of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!".
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Selma to Montgomery march begins - Mar 21, 1965 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Selma to Montgomery march begins on Mar 21, 1965. ... led by Martin Luther King Jr., begin a historic march from Selma, Alabama, to the state ... and the world's eyes turned to Selma after his arrival there in January 1965. ... Several of the protesters were severely beaten, and others ran for their lives.
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Time magazine's Man of the Year - King Institute Resources  In 1954, Martin Luther King began his rst full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue ... As the state president of the NAACP, a position she had assumed in 1952, Bates ..... The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to .... way, and Gandhi in India showed it could work'' (Rowland, ''2,500 Here Hail'').