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Dr. Martin Luther King. 1929 - 1968. 1958: Arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King was manhandled by police. 1960: In Atlanta, at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention.
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Dr. Martin Luther King 1929 - 1968
1958: Arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King was manhandled by police.
1960: In Atlanta, at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention.
1960: Leading a Demonstration Demanding a Strong Civil Rights Plank in the GOP Campaign Platform, in Chicago
1960: King at a civil rights rally on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1963: Addressing the huge gathering at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1965: The watershed march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965: In early March, shortly before leading civil rights demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., King attended a memorial service for Reverend James Reeb, a white clergyman from Boston who was killed by white thugs in Selma.
1966: King was a student of Mahatma Gandhi's extraordinarily successful non-violent methods of civil protest, and adopted them as a staunch theme of the American civil rights movement.
1968: Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. and children, disembarking plane bringing the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. home for burial in Atlanta.
“Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty I’m Free at Last”
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King Jr.
Go to the History website and read the Martin Luther King Jr. monograph.located athttp://www.belmont.k12.ca.us/ralston/programs/itech/mlk.html