... Jr. as the protest's leader and official spokesman (History.com). By the time the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating on public buses unconstitutional in November 1956, King, heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and the activist Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), had entered the national ... nonviolent resistance. He had also become a target for white supremacists, who firebombed his family home that January. Emboldened by the boycott's success, in 1957 he and other civil rights activists – most of them fellow ministers – founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (...

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... minimal wages and poor job mobility, systematic disenfranchisement of many African Americans, and the persistence of racial segregation in the South prompted discussions about a large-scale march for political and economic justice (History). On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for the political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by ... a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face ... across the co...

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