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Article: He was born in Atlanta, and he died in Memphis
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 19, 1986
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In 1955-56, a young black minister from Atlanta, steeped in the
words of Jesus, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau, led a
boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.
Some called him the Savior. Somebody else bombed his home. He
drew the praise and hatred of a divided land.
An era of racial ferment had begun. For the next decade, Martin
Luther King Jr. would remain at the forefront of the highly charged
civil rights movement, steering its course with the eloquence of his
words and the completeness of his belief in nonviolent protest.
King was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929, one of three children
of a middle-class Baptist minister and a former schoolteacher. He
attended ...