Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the nonviolent bus boycott that proved to both his supporters and the black community’s oppressors that the injustice in segregation, the hostility in bigotry, and the detriment of racial intolerance would not survive in the inherently progressive nation that had always lain at our core. In 1964, he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.

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