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For once , the black community of Montgomery was spurred to action . Martin Luther King agreed to serve on a committee to take up this case and other grievances . In March , they met with police commissioner Dave Birmingham and the ...
For once , the black community of Montgomery was spurred to action . Martin Luther King agreed to serve on a committee to take up this case and other grievances . In March , they met with police commissioner Dave Birmingham and the ...
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But NAACP leaders were disinclined to endorse direct - action methods , and chief counsel Thurgood Marshall sharply took issue with King's statement to the press that boycotts " might become the pattern in many areas of the South ” and ...
But NAACP leaders were disinclined to endorse direct - action methods , and chief counsel Thurgood Marshall sharply took issue with King's statement to the press that boycotts " might become the pattern in many areas of the South ” and ...
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Along with stalwarts like Abernathy , Shuttlesworth , and Walker , they made all the difference to the future of SCLC as a dynamic action group . Things happened fast now . The cumulative effect of the sitins and freedom rides impelled ...
Along with stalwarts like Abernathy , Shuttlesworth , and Walker , they made all the difference to the future of SCLC as a dynamic action group . Things happened fast now . The cumulative effect of the sitins and freedom rides impelled ...
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Contents
1 AS THE TWIG IS BENT | 1 |
2 A PILGRIMAGE WITH GOD | 15 |
3 THE CALL TO GREATNESS | 30 |
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| Title | Martin Luther King, Jr: His Life, Martyrdom, and Meaning for the World |
| Author | William Robert Miller |
| Publisher | Weybright and Talley, 1968 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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