I wanted to know more about Martin Luther King's personality. ... I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Biography of Martin Luther King 1.1 King's early years (1929 - 1953) Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the eldest son of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. ... It was founded by Martin Luther King. ...

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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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The Past and Present Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan was formed at the end of the Civil War during the Reconstruction period. It was viewed as a vigilante group created to intimidate black people or white people who were there to help them. Over the years, the KKK has evolved into a different type of organization. The Ku Klux Klan has a very rich history and a very unusual group still in existence today. In December 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee, six men who were previously officers in the Civil War decided to start a club, mainly for amusement. ...

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A number of factors are responsible for this, but perhaps the major one has been that associated with the sexual revolution that emphasizes freedom in all matters of sexuality and in spite of or even because of the tremendous and indiscriminate increase in the distribution of contraceptives. ...

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