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Martin Luther King lost his life when he was trying to stop racism in the South. He was one of the greatest Civil Rights leaders of the 1960s.
Martin was born in Atlanta, 1929. His dad was the minister of the local church.
When Martin was fifteen he went to Morehouse College. He graduated in 1948 and like his dad he wanted to become a minister of the local church.
Martin married Coretta Scott in 1953. They had 4 children and they were together until his death. After the bus boycott in 1956 was a bomb thrown on to Martins house and again in 1956 another bomb was thrown at his house. Luckily both times did the bombs not explode.
The bus boycott did that Martin was arrested. In 1960 was Martin‟s policy of non-violent protest was becoming more popular for those people who wanted to end segregation in the South.
In the same year, they found a new way of protesting. It is called „sitting-in‟. Martin joined a „sit-in‟ in October 1960. It was a restaurant in Atlanta.
Many began to join it, but soon after Martin was arrested and put in prison. He was not sorry to go to prison because he believed that bad laws should not be obeyed.
In November, a month after he got out of the prison, became John F. Kennedy the President of United States. The country was filled with hope.
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