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Martin Luther King, Jr, had many firsts to his credit, from being the prime mover of the seminal Montgomery bus boycott that went on for a record 382 days to the guiding force of the massive 250,000-strong March on Washington to being the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The list is impressive.
But with the benefit of hindsight, it can be argued that the policy of non-violent protest, which came to define the civil rights movement for a decade from 1957 to 1968, was his greatest achievement.
Addressing the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, King said, 'Those who hope that the coloured Americans needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquillity in America until the coloured citizen is granted his citizenship rights.'
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