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About Martin Luther King, Jr.
October 23, 2008
Read a biographical essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared by King Institute director Clayborne Carson and the Institute staff, extensively cross-referenced with links to the
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders leave Montgomery, arrive in Jackson and arrested
Segregation is banned at interstate travel facilities
After the first group of Freedom Riders is assaulted in Alabama, King addresses a mass rally in Mont
The Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C. to challenge segregated travel facilities in the South
Nashville Freedom Riders arrested while waiting for buses in Birmingham
Bus carrying Freedom Riders is fire-bombed on Mother’s Day near Anniston, Alabama
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