(The Center Square) – It was the winter of 1962. Demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, came to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his support in organizing a protest in the segregated city where Black people were forced to sit in the back of buses, couldn't sit at lunch counters with white people, couldn't even drink out of the same fountains as white people.
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Ambassador Andrew Young spoke with The Center Square about the Civil Rights movement and his time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Matthew Daniels explains what McGraw-Hill Civil Rights: A Global Perspective aims to achieve in this exclusive interview with The Center Square.
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Ambassador Andrew Young spoke with The Center Square about the Civil Rights movement and his time with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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