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The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Second Part

(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of racial prejudice courtesy of sharecropper grandparents whose objection to racial segregation based on an affront to the will of God, whereby the young whip smart precocious lad, (whose impact we now memorialize) showed his true colorful promise when a young student at Liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania where the yet uncrowned eminent king came under the influence of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a classmate of his father's at Morehouse College who became a mentor by exposing his protégée to liberal views of theology planting the seeds of ardent activism that gave rise to The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an initial platform allowing, enabling and providing acclaim hoisted up by petard invariably only heightened (his) posthumous status as thee most articulate orator spelling binding the listeners with his metaphors about his emphatic march to a promised land where all men/women could be brothers/sisters and no person will be judged by the color of his/her skin raising morale of many dirt poor ebony masses to feel a glimmer of hope.

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