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MARTIN LUTHER KING, A GREAT MAN, WHO CHANGE THE STORY IN AMERICA, OF THE AFROAMERICAN PEOPLE Martin Luther king junior was born in 15th January, in 1929, in Atlanta – Georgia, his father was the pastor of a Baptist church, and the most important thing that he made, was fight for peace and rights, because he worked for equality in the society. He was an American Baptist pastor, and his father, Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister. He studied theology at Boston University; in 1954 he took over a church in the city on Montgomery-Alabama; he was inspirited by Mahatma Gandhi and the theory of Henry David Thoreau. When he arrived to Montgomery, organized and led a massive boycott, where he was fighting against the segregation on municipal buses that was suffering the AfroAmerican people, because of that he became director of the US peace movement in the congress of racial equality, and in 1960 he started a nationwide campaign, in this moment Martin was caught, but he recovered his freedom because John Fitzgerald Kennedy helped him, and he could access to libraries, stores, and parking lots for black people, (that in this moment was separated the places between black and

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