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He became involved in the first major civil rights in Montgomery,Alabama,where buses where racially segregated
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He took the Noble Peace Prize
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) announced plans for the Chicago Freedom Movement, a campaign that marked the expansion of their civil rights activities from the South to northern cities.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks out against the war