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On this day, Reverend Martin King and his wife, Alberta, had Michal Luther King. But later, his father changed his name to Martin King in honor of the great sixteenth-century reformer.
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The protest was against the segregation of elevators at the local county courthouse.
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After graduating from Crozer in 1951, King continued his studies in religion at Boston University.
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King received his doctorate in theology from Boston University.
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Rosa Parks, the secretary for the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.
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Civil rights protestors got welcome news. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had signed the 1960 Civil Rights Act.
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On August 6, Dr. King and other African American leaders watched as President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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Dr. King was determined to hold a peaceful demonstration in support of the strikers. So he returned to Memphis on April 3. At an evening rally, Dr. King gave perhaps his finest speech—"I've Been to the Mountaintop."
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