Ahmed Al-Salem Section 7-3 1/23/2002 Martin Luther King The sun was hot on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. ... He loaded his Remington Gamester Model 760 .30-06 caliber rifle, he observed with his binoculars Martin Luther King. ... He laughed, he had done it; he had killed Martin Luther King Jr. ... Brewer, the manager, told authorities that someone named John Willard had registered with her at sometime between 3:30 and 4 p.m. on April 4, and was assigned to room 5B, which overlooked the Lorraine Hotel. ... Martin Luther King wanted the future to show kindness, and respect ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the protest group in a boycott of the Montgomery city bus system. ... Soon after the march, President John F. ... Unfortunately, three years later Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. ...

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Through her actions in the Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956) she was able to help bring attention to the wrong that was being done and she was able to give attention to other leaders, like Martin Luther King, Jr., who eventually had a huge influence in the African American history. ... Martin Luther King, Jr., met to discuss the issue. ... In 1965, an African American Congressman John Conyers, Jr. hired her. ... "She received several awards, such as; Lifetime Achievement Award (1997), NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1970), Martin Luther King Jr. Award (1980), Honorary degree from Sha...

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The discriminatory practices of Southern City buses were meticulously detailed in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me. ... Montgomery's new young Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr. was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the bus boycott. ... Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech. ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. After the infringing of this segregation law on buses Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) agreed, to aid Rosa Parks in leading the blacks in the Montgomery bus boycott. ... Eventually Parks and her family moved to Detroit and in 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers Jr. to manage his office, as he was also a civil rights leader. Parks was also active in the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), the organization lead for a ...

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