Martin Luther King Jr. 7
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Martin Luther king was an outstanding black American leader in the United States. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15,1929. His father was a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His mother was a schoolteacher.
Martin Luther King confronted racism at a young age. When he was six years ol ....
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.... blacks had a drinking fountain. They weren’t allowed to drink from a white fountain if they were black, but the whites could drink anywhere they wish. If a black drank out of a white fountain, they would probably get yelled at and maybe go to jail. Everything had a sign on it: Whites, Blacks. Usually the whites fountain was nicer and cleaner, and blacks were dirty, ugly.
There wasn’t just restrictions on drinking fountain, but schools. They had separate schools for blacks. The b ....
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