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Martin Luther King Jr.Jan 15, 1929 Apr 4, 1968
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan 15, 1929 Atlanta, U.S.
A prominent leader of in the African-American Civil Right Movement
Led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Speech @ the 1963 March on Washington ¡°I Have a Dream¡±
Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis
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Racial Discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
1951: Oliver Brown sues Topeka Kansas school board over segregation.
1954: NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall argues Brown v. Board before Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Earl Warren declares segregation ¡°inherently unequal.¡± -destruction of ¡°separate but equal¡± principle in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Racial Discrimination
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to move out of her seat on a city bus
She was arrested with violating the bus segregation law
Black society in ¡¦(»ý·«)
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of race, religion or national origin
M. L. King contributed to this legislation with his struggle to combat discrimination in the U.S.
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in Ma Rainey¡¯s Black Bottom
A 1982 play by August Wilson
This play is set in Chicago in the 1920s, and deals with race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers
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From a prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama, in April 1963, King wrote,
¡°From years now I have heard the word ¡°wait!¡± It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This ¡°wait¡± has almost always meant ¡°never.¡± It has been a tranquilizing, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration.¡±
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Thank You
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