...ta and orked at his fathers church. To years later he met President John F. Kennedy and asked him for help for the civil rights. In 1963 on August 28th, as he didnt get help, he organized the famous March on ashington , in hich 250 000 civil right activists took part. At the Lincoln Memorial Martin Luther King hold his famous speech I have a dream. In 1964 he met illy Brandt and talked to him about the discrimination of coloreds. In the same year on December 10th M. L. King got the Nobel Prize for peace. Even he got this prize he still protested against the discrimination and he got arrested for that.In 1968 on April 4th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as killed in a motel by a hite man called James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.18 years later in 1986 on January 20th the first national day of remembrance for M. L. King as celebrated. The bus-boycottRosa Parks, an 43-year-old black tailor, as arrested because she didnt stand up from the front seat of a bus. The night after that, 50 important people of the civil right movement met in church for a discussion about this problem. ith them as a young priest, Dr. M. L. King Jr. The leaders organized the Montgomery bus-boycott. Because of that the bus-company lost to thirds from its money. M. L. King had to pay 500 and had to go in jail for 386 days. He paid the money and after eight month the Supreme Court determined to abolish the segregation in buses, because that is against the constitution. From Selma to Montgomery- The Bloody SundayOutraged about a killed demonstrator, the colored from Marion in Alabama decided to make a march. M. L. King should lead this march from Selma to the capital Montgomery here he had to talk to the governor. They anted the police to stop their violence and they ere searching for attention they needed to fight for their rights. As the governor didnt accept this march, M. L. King ent to ashington to talk to President Johnson. The demonstrators couldnt ait and begun their march. As they reached the ton boarder, the police as already aiting for them. As they crossed the bridge, hich leaves Selma, the police ordered them to stop the march. But the police didnt ait until their arning as understand, instead of that, they attacked the crod. ith tear gas and hitsticks the police pushed them into a colored neighborhood here they hit innocent citizens.This day is called the Bloody Sunday. It got national attention and many marches ere organized as ansers to that day. President Johnson hold a very intensive speech and in the same year the Voting Rights Act as accepted for everyone, as a result of the Bloody Sunday.EFitsuvdeI!cdABOPOJQJao0ita 1h à!...
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