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Essay Archive - The Assassination of MLK
The Assassination of MLK
"One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change
strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr. synthesized ideas drawn from many different
cultural traditions." (Carson 1). However, these protest strategies only
furthered racial segregation, resulting in the eventual death of King.
Michael King, who was later known as Martin Luther King, Jr. was born
January 15, 1929, at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. His roots were in
the African-American Baptist church. After his junior year at Morehouse College,
Benjamin Mays influenced him t....
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