The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- and the civil rights struggle

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Little Rock, Ark., 19571963 Birmingham demonstrationBirmingham in 1963'I Have a Dream' speech'Impeach Earl Warren'At the Lincoln Memorial in 1963With Motley in 1965Antiwar march in 1967With Andrew Young in 1968The day before assassinationMLK Memorial

Among major events in civil rights history was the Little Rock Crisis. Nine African American students were kept out of racially segregated Central High School in Little Rock by Arkansas National Guard troops. Mobs threatened to lynch the children. It wasn't until President Eisenhower intervened and federal troops were called in that the so-called Little Rock Nine were able to attend the school.

Little Rock, Ark., 1957

( Associated Press )

Among major events in civil rights history was the Little Rock Crisis. Nine African American students were kept out of racially segregated Central High School in Little Rock by Arkansas National Guard troops. Mobs threatened to lynch the children. It wasn't until President Eisenhower intervened and federal troops were called in that the so-called Little Rock Nine were able to attend the school.

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