A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school as white children. A 14-year-old black boy like Emmett Till could be hunted down and murdered by a Mississippi gang simply because he had supposedly made suggestive remarks to white woman. ... And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands of courageous men and women, King was its culmination. ... (pp. 165-66) During the next few years, he would travel all over the world gathering support...

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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. ...

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a preacher and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ...

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