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Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta , Georgia, On January 15th il 1929. He Became a minister in the chruch, just like his father. The laws in many of the southern states weren’t fair to Afrian Americans. The african Americans weren’t allowed to vote, sot hey couldn’t change the laws of these states.

It wasn ‘t possible for one person alone to change this. Martin Luther King, Jr made a lot of powerful speeches ans people always listened to him. He totd people, « Many people working together can change things. » He wrate books and helped black people register to vote. In one of his speeches he said, « Use love, not violence. » But the people in authority hated him.

They arrested him and put him in jail. When he got out of jail, he contineed schools ans churches. In August 1963 more than 200,000 people marched along the streets of Washington D.C, and protested about the lack of equal rights in America.

It was called the « March on Washinton for Jobs and Freedom. » Thirty special trains and two thousand special buses brought people to Washington.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, said Rosa parks is a seamstress who became an iconic figure in the struggle against racial segregation in the United States, which earned him the nickname mother of the civil rights movement from the U.S. Congress.

She became famous on 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. Arrested by the police it means a fine of ten dollars on December 5, she appealed this judgment. A young black pastor unknown 26 years, Martin Luther King then launches a campaign of protest and boycott against the bus company that lasted 381 days. On 13 November 1956, the Supreme Court reverses the laws of segregation on buses.

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