... , Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929. As the grandson of the Reverend A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. After attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, King went ... from North Carolina to Virginia. In the campaign's first major arrests, police in Raleigh, North Carolina jailed fourty-one students. The same week, on February 13, 124 students in Nashville, Tenne...

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... prominent advocates. January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, 501 Auburn Street, Georgia, a small Victorian building. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams grandson, Williams is pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church and the NAACP will sponsor the Atlanta branch; Martin Luther King Jr. Gold is old Martin Luther King, Jr.'s son, Martin Luther Jin Jicheng ... old Williams became the father of Ebeneezer's pastor, my mother is a teacher. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family originated in African-American Baptists. 15 years old studious gold with honors e...

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... Sunday," began the first of three attempts to march to Montgomery. Approximately 600 African Americans set out on the four-day, fifty mile journey. They were led by SCLC's Hosea Williams and SNCC's John Robert Lewis. King remained in Atlanta, Georgia that day to minister his congregation. The marchers reached the crest of Selma's Edmund Crettus Bridge and were met by ... and getting rid of the obstacles preventing blacks from voting. In August of 1965 President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In February 1968, sanitation workers of Memphis, Tennessee struck for improvement...

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