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If they didn't respect these conditions, they risked jail time, injuries and even death

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Black people had to talk to white people with the utmost respect

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Black people had to do specific jobs

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They had to live in different neighborhoods

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The police monitored their behaviour

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African Americans were forbidden to stay in the same places of white people

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Jim Crow's laws made the segregation legal in the South of the USA

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African Americans were second class citizen

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For example, the white homeowners wouldn't sell their houses to African Americans

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In the Norh of the USA there weren't laws, but unspoken rules

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Segregation

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Use the same bathroom of white people

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Go to the same schools of white people

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Eat at the same lunch table of white people

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African Americans couldn't

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In the first half of the 20th century in many parts of the USA African Americans couldn't live as freely as white people

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He wanted to extend equal rights to all people

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He was one of the most important leaders of the American Civil Right Movement

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In 1968 he was assassinated in Tennessee; he was 39 years old

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He won  the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

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"I have a dream" speech

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March on Washington
for jobs and freedom in 1963

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Inspired by Gandhi

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He continued with not violent protests and marches for civil right

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In 1956 the Supreme Court decided to abolish segregated buses

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He was unfairly imprisoned and this fact shoked the public opinion

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Rosa Parks was arrested

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With the activist Jo Ann Robinson he organized a boicott of the bus system

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In 1953 he headed to Montgomery (Alabama) where he met his wife Coretta

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He went to religious colleges in Philadelphia and Boston

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He became a pastor too

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His grandfather and his father were pastors at the local church

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He was born on 15 January 1929
in Atlanta (USA)