... usually stayed within. These boundaries hold in Montgomery, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his first speech as well as where the bus boycott originated. This was also where the governor's mansion was located where George Wallace and John Patterson didn't exactly sell the idea of desegregation. The battleground for the freedom rides, beatings, bus burnings, and bombings was also in this band. Alvin Horn had a ... lives, but before they were murdered, a spectator called the police. They rescued the black men and arrested the Klansmen, but when it went to trial, the juries found the Kl...

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... culture. But until the eleventh century people were enslaved mainly because of war. During the crusade, Christians and Muslims used religion to justify slavery. In the fifteenth century, race became the primary basis for slavery. In ... . The English began to establish their own colonies along the eastern seaboard through trading companies chartered through King James. Some companies cultivated crops. Servants were brought to the colonies along with captive Africans to work ... Europeans needed to convince themselves that other races were somehow less than human in order to justify the b...

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