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Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man he changed the way some people looked at the world. He was born on January 15, 1929 and died by assentation on April 4, 1968. He was originally named Michael Luther King Jr. and later had it changed to Martin. His grandfather started a family sort of family tradition by starting the family’s long tenure as pastors of a Baptist church called “Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His grandfather served from 1914 to 1931. After his grandfather died, he served as the co-pastor. Martin attended segregated schools in Georgia. He surprisingly graduated high school at age 15. He went to Morehouse College, a Negro institution of Atlanta. He then went on to take three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was president of a white senior class. Next, he enrolled at Boston University and completed his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and received the degree in 1955. In Boston, he met his future wife, Coretta Scott. They eventually had two sons and two daughters.

Martin became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Alabama. He was also a member of the executive committee of the NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people), the leading organization in the nation. Martin was ready to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of current times in the United States, the bus boycott chosen by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The bus boycott lasted an astonishing 382 days. On December 21, 1956, the Supreme Court declared the law requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional, therefore Negroes and whites rode buses as equals. During the boycott, Martin was arres...

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...orts on a federal woman’s suffrage amendment. In an effort to challenge suffrage, Anthony and her three sisters voted in the 1872 Presidential election. She was arrested and put on trial in the Ontario Courthouse, Canandaigua, New York. The judge instructed the jury to find her guilty without any deliberations, and imposed a $100 fine. When Anthony refused to pay a $100 fine and court costs, the judge did not sentence her to prison time, which ended her chance of an appeal. An appeal would have allowed the suffrage movement to take the question of women’s voting rights to the Supreme Court, but it was not to be.
From 1881 to 1885, Anthony joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage in writing the History of Woman Suffrage.
As a final tribute to Susan B. Anthony, the Nineteenth Amendment was named the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified in 1920.
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