... Rights and motivate people of all colors to hold nonviolent demonstrations such as sit-ins and marches to protest all elements of segregation. Two years later, in 1960, King moved back to Atlanta to be co-paster with his father in the Ebenezer Baptist Church and became president of the SCLC. King, putting Gandhis techniques of nonviolent protest to the test ... 1965 King led a drive in Selma, Alabama, to register black voters. Racist whites protesting the drive met the blacks with violence. This day has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. A few days later, in protest to this treatment, t...

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