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Martin Luther King Jr Accomplishments

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Martin Luther King Jr. deserves the Greatest American Award, he wasn’t just a man, but he was a baptist, a social activist and a civil rights movement leader. Mr. King had taken a stand to stick up for the rights of African- Americans and in the meantime he had put his life on the line to do so. He had proved many people wrong, he had gone to school and got a fantastic education. In 1951 he was the valedictorian of his class and they had elected him as the student body president. Martin Luther King had organized a march that from Selma to Montgomery which was a 54 mile walk.. On March 7th, six hundred people had set out to march for the rights of blacks… the troopers had then beat them, killed some, and released tear gas in order to send
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