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End of Segregation Was Goal Of Slain Civil Rights Leader
United Press International profile of Martin Luther King Jr recounts his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 56 the rise to national prominence and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It notes his nonviolent tactics his campaigns across the South and his role with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
Ala
King
Alabama
Deep South
St. Augustine
Fla
Birmingham
Albany
Danville
Selma
Dexter Avenue
State Capitol
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Georgia
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
United States
Atlanta
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Black Belt
George Wallace
Johnson
Oslo
Europe
Asia
South America
Africa
Ghana
Morehouse College
Crozer Theological Seminary
Chester
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard
Boston
Boston University
Washington
United Press International
William W. Greenwood