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US Civil Rights: the March on Washington

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The Rise and Fall of King

King was first thrust into the national spotlight at Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. He tries to duplicate his success in places like Albany, Georgia, and in Atlanta. But he's improvising every step of the way, and that becomes part of his genius. In some ways, his greatest role is as a loudspeaker.

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