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Martin Luther King, Jr. - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | King was an adherent of the philosophies of nonviolent civil disobedience used successfully in India by Mohandas Gandhi, and he applied this philosophy to the protests organised by the SCLC. |
 | | King and the SCLC were instrumental in the unsuccessful protest movement in Albany in 1961-2, where splits within the fl community and the canny, low-key response by local government defeated the movement, in the Birmingham protests in the summer of 1963, and in the protest in St. |
 | | King was assassinated before the march on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, while preparing to lead a local march in support of the heavily-fl Memphis sanitation workers' union. |
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