It also barred any state from taking a persons life, liberty, and property without due process of law and from denying equal protection of laws. ... They took the advice of nonviolence from a great leader named Martin Luther King Jr.... It is an organization, which is for student groups who are engaged in direct action which were protest across the entire South. 2 With all of these organizations being formed it changed Black power and split it up into two parts, which was the violence approach, which was supported by Malcolm X, and the nonviolence approach, which was supported by Martin Luther...

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Leaflets were produced to publicize the boycott, and 18 African American taxi companies agreed to charge the bus fare rate rather than their normal rate. 26 year old Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen to head the MIA. ... These protests became known as "Freedom Rides." ... The first Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961. ... To maintain the protest, members of CORE, SNCC, and SCLC formed the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee. Freedom Rides continued. with many participants arrested and jailed. ...

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