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America Then Before 1970, you were treated differently because of the colour of your skin. They had: -Separate Washrooms -Separate Drinking Fountains.

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2 America Then Before 1970, you were treated differently because of the colour of your skin. They had: -Separate Washrooms -Separate Drinking Fountains Darker coloured people were 2 nd class citizens. The different skinned people weren’t even aloud to play cards together!

3 Martin Luther Martin attended Morehouse college and went on to get a degree at Boston University. While in Boston, he met a women called Coretta Scott, he married her in 1953. They had four children.

4 Civil Rights Leader Although Martin lead a rebellion, he achieved this without physically fighting, he hated it. As he was the leader, he was the main target for angry people who did not want things to change. Some people: -Burnt a cross in front of his house -Threw a bomb into his house!

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