The second volume of Taylor Branch's ambitious history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times begins, approximately, in the spring of 1963 and ends two years later with the assassination of Malcolm X and the first events that culminated in the massive marches in Selma, Alabama in the early spring of 1965. This is narrative history in the grand style. As the author explains, "I have tried to make biography and history reinforce each other by knitting together a number of personal stories along the main seam of an American epoch" (p. xiv). ... All of this material offered a sharp focus an...

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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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She insists that her son Julian, a quasi-intellectual, educated at "only a third-rate college", hypocritically consumed with disdain for his mother's racial bigotry, escort her to the Y on the recently integrated city bus after the Supreme Court ruling in December of 1956 to desegregate the buses of Montgomery, Alabama (Alabama Department of Archives and History 1). ...

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King met his wife Coretta Scott King at Boston University they married in 1953, shortly after they moved to his wife hometown Montgomery, Alabama where they had four children Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter and Bernice. In 1954 King first pastored at Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. ... His "I have a Dream speech" that day would make history and have an impact on Americans and King supporters. ...

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The Tuskegee Study is widely regarded as one of the largest medical blemishes in the history of the United States. ... The study was carried out in Macon County, Alabama, a heavily populated African American area. Initially, before the study was created, the country sent doctors to Alabama to treat the mass amounts of people infected with syphilis. ...

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In the next few pages of this report I will inform you of the history, political significance, and current applications of this core democratic value. ... Federal examiners could supervise elections in states with a history of discrimination. By January, 1966, more than 90,000 new African American voters had been registered to vote in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. ... In conclusion of this report about the history of inequality in the United States and how it progressed to equality. ...

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Another example would be how Alabama's Leroy Pope Walker summarized that Republican rule would cost southerners first, "our property," "then our liberties," and finally "the sacred purity of our daughters" (79). ... One speech that Dew wrote about that showed pro slavery attitude was by Stephen Fowler Hale who was Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky. ... These speeches that Dew wrote about demonstrated how primary documents can be used to discover the truth about history and reveal the misconceptions of the modern- day opinion that the civil war was really about slavery. ...

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In America's history, in the over 18,000 convictions of capital punishment, only thirty-seven were of a white person being punished for the murder of an African-American. ... In Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, court-appointed attorneys are paid a flat rate of $1,000, which translates to about five dollars an hour to defend in a capital case ("Five"). ... In conclusion, the history of capital punishment has included instances of cruelty against innocent people. ...

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It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... The seven states of the lower South (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) formed themselves into the Confederate States of America. ...

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Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida were all readmitted to the Union in 1868 which makes sense because it was the same year that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ...

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Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee all tightened their existing laws. ... Section 5 of the act requires 16 southern states who have a history of discriminating against minorities to obtain clearance from the Justice Department or a federal court before they are allowed to make any changes to election procedures (USA Today). ...

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The most expensive and the deadliest hurricane in the history of United States was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ... Overall, more than 1800 casualties were estimated where vast majority of deaths up to 80% came from New Orleans and the rest from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and several missing [2,3]. ...

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Between the years 1790 and 1860, almost 835,000 slaves were moved from the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. For one of the first times in history, both religious and nonclerical associations denounced the institution of slavery as both an act of sin against man and God and as a violation of natural rights. During the 1760s, the first movements in history began to denounce slavery. ... With the southe...

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After teaching himself to read and write, Washington received a secondary education at Hampton Institute and eventually founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (Harlan). ... In this address, he introduces his theory, stating that "it is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top" (History Matters). ... He understands that African Americans cannot be blamed completely for where they stand and that the nation, as a whole, is responsible for the wronging of the African American race throughout the history of America. ...

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The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... The only way that southern slaveholders maintained their status as such throughout the course of American history was through the societal indoctrination of certain religious, economic and moral principles which, the slaveholders argued, justified slavery. ... An editor o...

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Although the aforesaid assumption has been absorbed throughout history, Rose believes that more readings occur in the blue collar workplace than what society gives credit for. ... Her experience reminds me of the time when I worked as a sales representative at an AT&T retail store in Alabama. ...

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The Cherokee simply did not want to give up the land that holds history and sentimental meaning to them. ... The removal of the Indians beyond the States and Territories was the only mode by which the power of the General Government could be properly and exclusively exercised for their benefit, calling to his recollection the provision in the constitution which forbade the erection of any new State within the Jurisdiction of any other State, and the formation of any State by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of The Legislatures of the States concerned...

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