After long training in the North, Mr. King returned to his home, becoming a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. King became the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott when it broke out in 1955. T

The occurances immediately following were less successful, but still provided Mr. King with the opportunity to strengthen his protest strategies. Then, in 1963, Mr. King and the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) joined a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama to end segregation there and to force downtown businesses to allow blacks to work. Peaceful protests were not long after met by fire hoses and attack dogs, joined by local police. Images of this violence broadcast on national news, began an outrage, and this reaction stirred the political atmosphere, and the next year President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Meanwhile the SCLC was repeating the tactics of Birmingham in Selma, Alabama but this time for the

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