Martin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ... He also attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and Booker T. ... Because of his high scores on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. ... The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scott's home in Marion, Alabama. ... People that know the man called James Earl Ray says he stayed out of trouble as a child, he skipped school here and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

That was called Segregation. ... A federal judge ordered the National Guard out, then again blacks tried going school again but the white mob forced them to go home. ... In 1957 and 1960, two federal laws called the Civil Rights Act were passed. ... The charismatic reformer Marcus Gavey called for racial separatism and a "Back to Africa Colonization Program". ... Rather it was a dispersed, grass-roots campaign that attacked segregation in many different places using different tactics. ...

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He started a militant, all black group called the Black Panthers. ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. ... A movement was needed because of the unfairness and discrimination by sex in the work place. ...

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That night, after the boycott, while attending the first of many meetings that would take place at Holt Street Church, thousands of blacks decided unanimously to continue the boycott until some permanent changes were made. ... After the letter she received threatening phone calls, people threw rocks at her house, and she lost many of her personal friends. ... Nixon's home, fortunately no one was injured. ... The homes of two black leaders, four Baptists churches, t...

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Indeed it was not common to call a slave other than by his first name or as boy". ... But the so-called Reconstruction period failed, although Blacks were now called citizens", they still had no civil rights. ... They used threats, burning and lynching to keep the black man in his place". ... Daddy King, as he was called by his family, was an example for Martin, who was deeply influenced by his home and his church, which helped him in the white racist society of the South. ... King lectured in all parts of the country and discussed problems of Blacks with civil-rights and religious leader...

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• Grade Level: High School

The two men were working towards the same goals as Cone explains in his book, but in different manners. ... If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place. ... Louis Farrakhan called him a "cowardly hypocritical dog" who "is worthy of death." ... Cone also quotes King's wife, Coretta, who said King saw her as a "homemaker" and expected her to be "home waiting for him." ... Malcolm called women "tricky, deceitful, and untrustworthy flesh." ...

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Fred Shuttlesworth called a meeting of local ministers and community leaders at Sardis Baptist Church and the ACMHR was founded. ... King's philosophy of nonviolence described in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom. ... Shuttlesworth served as minister at First Baptist Church in Selma until 1952, and the following year he was called to Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham. ... Fred Shuttlesworth called a meeting of local ministers and community leaders at Sardis Baptist Church and the ACMHR was founded. ...

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