US Civil Rights: the Montgomery bus boycott
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The Rise and Fall of Martin Luther King Jr.
The activist demands were met with the US Supreme Court decision of 1956. But it's worth noting that he first comes to political prominence here as a 26 year old preacher. And so King comes to head the Montgomery Improvement Association and that first mass meeting that Monday night, he's nervous. Then if you've ever listened to that speech, you can see that the spirit is moving in him to talk about what history will show in Montgomery.
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