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Oppressed no Longer
Title: Oppressed no Longer
Category: History
Details: Words: 528 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oppressed no Longer
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an ordained minister and civil rights leader. King demonstrations and actions from 1958- 1968 opened up opportunities for African Americans who in the South were prohibited from sitting in certain sections of buses, using facilities such as water fountains, and sitting at lunch counters with whites. These laws were unjust and unconstitutional, and they were not challenged by local authorities. King decided to take action because he, as well as the other …showed first 75 words of 528 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 528 total…of non- violent social change strategies. He led a massive struggle for racial equality that doomed segregation and changed America forever. And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands of courageous men and women, King was the one to reach the highest degree. It is impossible to think of the movement unfolding as it did without him at its helm. He was the right man at the right time.
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