Both the march from Selma to Montgomery and the Voting Rights Act of 1964 proved to be victories for Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Activists within the movement felt it advantageous to relocate their focus to the North, ... led to a three page article in the New York Times. The front page describes the initial protest with King. The second page of the article describes the police and King's strategies for the march. The third page describes Robinson's background. "This group(WSO) is led by an ex-convict, Chester Robinson, and is made up of violent and unstable persons...

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... but does not make binding on itself." (King p. 71) Martin Luther King even goes as far as to remind his fellow clergymen that in the 1940's Adolph Hitler did not act against any German Laws, but everything the Hungarian Freedom Fighters did was in fact illegal. Direct action, King explains, does not create tension, but rather brings attention to the tension ... to "let them march; . . . and try to understand why he must do so." (King p. 76) Following his release from jail, Martin Luther King, together with the SCLC, re- evaluated their strategies for direct action in Birmingham. "He did...

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... . In 1958, he published his first book that is called Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. That following year he toured India in order to understand the Gandhian non-violent strategies. Martin returned from his trip and became a co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1960 to 1968. In the spring of 1963, Martin and many of his ... hoses had caused major news reports. President Kennedy had reacted to the Birmingham protests by submitting broad civil rights legislation to Congress. "That eventually came to be the Civil Rights Act of 1964". Following demonstration...

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