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National Geographic Kids, Martin Luther King Jr. by Kitsyn Jusinka.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.? Can you imagine a world where laws kept black and white people apart?

Where black children couldn't swim in the same pools as white children?

Or go to the same schools? a place where laws made it hard for

black people to vote, or where a black person had to stand up on a bus so a white person

could sit down. This world was real, and it happened in the United States.

Martin Luther King, Jr. worked hard to change rules so they would be the same for whites and

blacks. He didn't do it by fighting. He helped change unfair laws by making people think.

He did it by making people feel. He did it with his words.

Lots of black people and white people help Dr. King protest those laws.

This made many people angry because they didn't want change, but in the end, the protesters

won, and the rules changed forever.

Growing up, Dr. King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.

He was named after his father.

He was called M.L.

Small but strong, M.L. rode bikes with his brother and sister.

M.L.'s father was the minister of a church.

He taught his children to stand up for what is right.

He taught them to speak out against what is wrong.

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