Through all of the surrounding hate he could still use Jesus to guide him trough the situation. ... Gandhi went to London to study law and soon afterward to "Southern Africa to help in the fight for the rights of immigrant Indians-(Luther para. 2). ... It is as thou history has repeated itself directly on King with the visions of peace and brotherhood, but with a government who was just not ready. ... People say history repeats itself and over time that has definitely proved itself to be true. ...

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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. ... During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.... 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 A...

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The 1960's were one of the most significant decades in the twentieth century. The sixties were filled with new music, clothes, and an overall change in the way people acted, but most importantly it was a decade filled with civil rights movements. On February 1, 1960, four black freshmen from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College in Greensboro went to a Woolworth's lunch counter and sat down politely and asked for service. The waitress refused to serve them and the students remained sitting there until the store closed for the night. The very next day they returned, thi...

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