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Martin Luther King And The Civil Rights Movement

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African-American civil rights leaders thought about it and realized that they needed a national group organization to support their cause. They decided to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Mr. King was elected president. King traveled around the country giving lectures on nonviolent protests and civil rights. “In 1960 King and his family moved to Atlanta, his native city, where he joined his father as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.” (Martin Luther King Jr.) Though he moved back to Atlanta, he continued to take action in the SCLC. “In February 1958, the SCLC sponsored more than 20 mass meetings in key southern cities to register black voters in the South.” (Martin Luther King Jr. Biography) In 1963, King held

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