Along with his older sister, the future Christine King Farris (born 1927), and younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King (1930-1969), he grew up in the city's Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home. to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country (History.com). ... This new position did not stop King and his SCLC colleagues from becoming key players in many of the most significant civil rights battles of the 1960s. ...

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Over 35 years have passed since the death of a great man named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a man that symbolized the power of the word, and the power of love and challenged Americans, both black and white, to live up to the best that was within them. Such a leader is not born- but made. He wa...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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