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02.02.2021 • 
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10 points Martin Luther King, Jr. was committed to nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice, even

when facing people who disagreed. What evidence from the text best supports this

conclusion?

"The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with

violence, but King and his followers persisted, and their nonviolent movement gained

momentum

"A powerful orator, he appealed to Christian and American ideals and won growing

support from the federal government and northern whites.

"By that time, the civil rights movement had begun to fracture, with activists such as

stokely Carmichael rejecting King's vision of nonviolent integration in favor of African

American self-reliance and self defense."

"In the late 1960's, King openly criticized U.S. involvement in Vietnam and turned his

efforts to winning economic rights for poor Americans."

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