There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.

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King employed nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience in his campaigns. He organized peaceful protests, boycotts, and marches to to racial injustice.

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Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, ...

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