He was raised in a Christian home and entered the Christian ministry at the age of 19 in 1948. ... Martin Luther King was the founder and president of Southern leadership conference and rice president of the National Sunday School and Baptist teaching union congress of the national Baptist convention. His involvement with the church influenced his approach to the civil rights movement and he based his non-violent ideas on Christian teachings of love, goodness and forgiveness. ...

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He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. ... s family originated in African-American Baptists. 15 years old studious gold with honors enter Moore House School to study sociology at the end of their studies Koji Atlanta Moore College, Bachelor of Arts degree. ... In order to seek further development of Montgomery after the victory, Martin Luther King and other black leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to establish the South in 1957. ... Contradiction Nonviolent Coordinating Co...

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Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an agency, which is for organizations as well as individuals, that are engaged in non-violent protest in the major cities of the United States. ...

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She was enrolled in the private Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. ... Washington Junior High School. She soon dropped out of school at 16 years old to care for her grandma. ... One year later she received her high school diploma. ... Martin Luther King Jr. a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the president of Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which directed the boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

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During the years spent in his home, in the middle of all the hate and violence, King had learned tolerance of others, and began developing his morals on Christian love. ... In 1944, as a junior in high- school, student Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an entrance examination for Morehouse College. He was promptly accepted to the school, where he lived for four years as a pre-medical student. ... After the success of the bus boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was formed by King and other black ministers in 1957. ...

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He went to local elementary and high schools, and then enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1944. ... A national hero and a civil-rights figure of importance, King then put together the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...

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While King was trying to build success in Montgomery, he and other black ministers came together to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It was created to encourage the Christian faith and leadership into the African American community. ... Almost every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ...

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In the early months of 1963, most public schools in the south were still segregated; even though racial segregation in public schools was invalidated by the Supreme Courts unanimous decision in Brown v. ... It was King's profession as a Baptist minister, and his deep-rooted Christian faith that inspired him to lead a movement, such as the one in Birmingham, to freedom. ... That did not deter King and The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), which he led. ...

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The country was in the midst of a deep depression; with a high unemployment rate, Thoreau was fortunate enough to be hired immediately by the Concord School committee to teach in the same one room school he had attended as a child (Concise 350). Around the end of the first 2 weeks Deacon Nehemian Ball, one of the members of the school committee, observed Henry. ... It is thought that Henry still harbored some ill will towards the school committee later in his life. ... John's death also brought an end to their school, and left Henry searching for a new occupation (Concise 350). ... Passa...

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Truthfully, laws are passed  to protect our "Christian" morality, and notable standing among the Earth's other great powers. ... In order to make a change though, we can't start in the school system, we must get to the root of the problem, and we must see the big picture. ...

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It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. ... A new organization was formed that was called SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and King was elected its president, a position he held until his assassination. ... SCLC's motto was "to redeem the soul of America- that reflected both its Christian orientation...

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King was so gifted that he was accepted into Morehouse College at the age of 15, without even finishing high school. ... King, now the age of a high school senior, attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. ... In 1958, King wrote his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

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King studied in the public schools of Atlanta, spent time at the Atlanta Laboratory School until it closed in 1942, and then entered public high school in the tenth grade, skipping a grade. ... Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. After attending Morehouse College, King decided to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, a very liberal school. ... In a follow-up meeting in New Orleans on February 14, the group adopted the name Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and elected King President. From 1960 ...

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Parks mother worked as a school teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Rosa gave up school when she came close to graduating, around the same time Rosa got married. ... When Rosa had finished school she was lucky enough to get a job as a seamstress in a local sewing factory. ... Parks was also active in the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), the organization lead for a lengthy period of time by Martin Luther King. ...

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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

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He was later named to the board of directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. ... The Black community was disappointed in the slow progress being made to de-segregate the school system. ...

• Word Count: 1704
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School