King had a dream; a dream that one day we could all live in peace, no matter what one's skin colour may be. ... He was separated from one of his only friends, a young white boy whose parents despised blacks But this did not make King grow hostile. ... In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. published his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.Several years later, in 1960, a black college student was refused service at a lunch counter. ... It was because of these amazing achievements that King was made Time Magazine's "Man of the Year", and the recipient of the Nobel Peace P...

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Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. ... With this in mind, he began his first book "St...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people ei...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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