Martin Luther King: In A Life Of A Famous Person

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In a life of a Famous Person
I, Martin Luther King, played numerous acts and speeches throughout the campaign of leading blacks to gain justice, and freedom. Throughout these difficult process’s, we didn’t use any violence, neither weapons against our government because we thought we could get a better chance of getting justice instead of fighting with force. We, the blacks, wanted to integrate with the whites. They call themselves the chosen ones, who were born to own slaves. Consequently, the work wasn’t a success.
Long time ago, our ancestors, and my friend’s parents were slaves. They had to get whipped several times, because of the watchers. The watchers spot slaves that aren’t working hard, then they whip them. Our parents and other people’s

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