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Martin Luther King Jr.: Fighting For Equality And Human Rights

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Even though it is safe to say we reach to the point that no matter your skin color or nationality, we can all walk alongside each other without feeling discriminated. But achieving this equality we all share and rejoices, it wasn’t as simple as we think it will be. Thru the history of this country of ours there have always been someone fighting for the equality and Humans Rights that we all deserved and one great example is Martin Luther King Jr. who fought day in and day out for his believes and fellows Americans.
Dr. King did a lot for the African American Community or how they were called at the time “Colored People” from speeches and letters to nonviolence actions by which he was incarcerated on the Birmingham Jail. While he was

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