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60 years ago MLKjr was pulled over for driving a white woman, later resulting in a 4m sentence to a chain gang, this sparked civil rights movement

Posted by zeitgeist May 4 '20, 01:30

black voters tended to be republican some 60-40% Nixon had MLK Sr's endorsement but calls for his help were ignored, JFK did intervene and got 70% of the black vote and won by 100k votes.

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60 years ago MLKjr was pulled over for driving a white woman, later resulting in a 4m sentence to a chain gang, this sparked civil rights movement

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