How Did Martin Luther King Give Us Freedom

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Martin Luther King Jr. was inspired by Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau. they all fought with no violence. they tried to make peace with the white people, who they thought were racist. they sent them to jail for speaking their minds it was tuft for black people back then. nothing was right for us back then but these three guys help us out trying to give us rights to.

mr. king was born january 15 1929 he was assassinated in april 4 1968 mr. king was helping the black out because we wants rights to it’s not just for the white people they can share mr. king gave speech about how black people was treated we had to sit in the back for the bus we could not vote so they fought back so the white people got the fire holes on use and them dogs

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