King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the position to be a pastor, like his father, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. ... Where it was officially declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional and Montgomery buses were finally desegregated. ... In the middle of 1963, King lead mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known for their violent opposition to black rights. ... Overall, America was put on the right track by the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and he will always be reme...

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While in Boston he met Coretta Scott (1927-2006), a young singer from Alabama who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. The couple wed in 1953 and settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. ... Held on August 28 and attended by some 200,000 to 300,000 participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pepper, Williams 2008). ...

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