Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested for driving 30 miles an hour in a 25-mile-an-hour zone. He was taken to the police station and fingerprinted; at first it appeared that he would be kept overnight, but because the crowd of blacks outside the station kept growing larger and noisier, the police let King go on his own recognizance. Two days later, King’s house was bombed by a white extremist, the first in a series of such incidents at the homes of black leaders and at black churches. In unity and nonviolence the blacks found new strength, particularly as the nation began to take notice.
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