I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.

Amelia Boynton Robinson
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a very influential person in the United States in the 1960s. He was a leader for a movement that was in turmoil. Martin Luther King, Jr.

faced many obstacles in his life, but when it came to injustice against African-Americans in America, there was no one who could match his courage and determination. In 1965 when he led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, he showed the world that even though things were rough for African-Americans in America at the time, they could not be defeated.

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