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How Did Martin Luther King Influence The Civil Rights Movement

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Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was an extraordinary man who had the courage and devotion to begin a nonviolent civil rights movement in the 1960s. Dr King had many childhood influences, role models, and education that made him the person he was as an adult. He did many amazing things that helped our country in his time. First and foremost, when Dr. King was a child he had many experiences that helped shape him. When he was six years old he had two friends that were the children of a white storekeeper, that had begin to stop playing with young Martin. That’s when he had been taught about racial discrimination, he knew it was a problem from the start. Then Martin had been chosen to give a speech about the constitution and when he was riding the

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