Moreover, the boycott was significant because Martin Luther King, Jr. was appointed as President of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and thus began his influential position in the Movement. ... King and Dr. ... The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized "Freedom Rides" in 1961. ... King, to an abrupt halt, and the brutality against them was televised around the nation. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ...

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. ... Another example of demonstrating the freedom we now possess that allows us to truly call ourselves Americans was Martin Luther King Jr. ... Thomas Jefferson once said, "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. ... Printed in the Pledge of Allegiance it says indivisible with liberty and justice for all. That's what the founding fathers before us foresaw when they won the battle...

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• Grade Level: High School

It meant rewarding merit over bloodline and it meant fighting for liberty and freedom. ... In Hall's speech " A Charge Delivered to The Brethren," he addresses his masons as grand master and explains to his brothers that black people fought shoulder to shoulder for freedom and equality in the American Revolution, so for equality not to be given to black men was total hypocrisy. ... By doing so they orchestrated the "Freedom Now Rally" of 1964. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate