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Martin Luther King. Black people in the USA mostly got there because their ancestors were shipped across from Africa. Since black people were mostly slaves in the USA, many white people thought of them as inferior. Rosa Parks Biography. Rosa Parks arrested / biography.
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Black people in the USA mostly got there because their ancestors were shipped across from Africa. Since black people were mostly slaves in the USA, many white people thought of them as inferior.
‘Sit-in’ and ‘Freedom-rides’ Together, black and white people would peacefully protest by ‘sitting’in’ cafes, cinemas or shops who refused to serve black and white people at the same counter. Freedom-rides was a peaceful non-violent way of protesting on the buses for equal treatment. Black people would sit in the seats reserved for whites only.
Martin Luther King’s life was often threatened. His house was bombed, he was shot at in his home, and often received threatening phone-calls or letters.
New York Gov. Averell Harriman talks with Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Harlem Hospital where King was recovering from a stab wound. He was attacked by an African American woman while promoting his book - "Stride Toward Freedom"
MLK had been arrested several times After the first bus-boycott in Montgomery At a sit-in At protest marches Once for simply standing outside a courtroom waiting to see the judge. On this occasion Martin was kicked and beaten up, and was charged for not obeying a policeman. He told the judge later, ‘Your Honour, I cannot pay a fine for an act that I did not do. The black man can no long silently suffer cruelty from the police. We cannot do so because of what we read in the Bible. We are commanded to resist evil by the God who made us all. Martin was fined ten dollars, refused to pay, and was sent to jail. On another occasion when MLK was arrested, President John F. Kennedy intervened and told the court to release him immediately.
