Martin Luther King Jr
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- Created on: 17-04-14 12:59
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- MLK
- Children's Crusade
- May 1963
- 100th anniversary of abolition of slavery
- joined by SCLC march
- Birmingham, Alabama
- 1000s of children
- young as 6
- "Bull" Conor
- water cannons
- police dogs
- batons
- civil movement had a lot to thank him for
- 2,500 jailed
- televised
- President Kennedy
- federal troops
- demanded to end segregation
- asked for children to be released
- gained MLK more respect & popularity
- March on Washington DC
- August 1963
- 250,000+ marched
- 50,000 were white
- to Lincoln Memorial
- "I have a dream"
- helped passage of Civil Rights Bill in 1964
- March of Selma
- 1965
- Alabama
- change voting
- less than 3% of blacks voted
- Jim Clark
- Sheriff
- clubs
- tear gas
- 600 protesters
- televised
- federal troops
- completed weeks later
- Voting Rights Act
- 1965
- President Johnson
- outlawed literacy tests & poll taxes
- 1 million vote
- why important to civil rights movement
- non-violence
- Children's Crusdae
- desegregate in Birmingham
- personality
- powerful speeches
- Civil Rights Bill in 1964
- Selma March
- Voting Rights Act in 1965
- international reputation
- leadership of start of civil movement
- Children's Crusade
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