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Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 1: Early Years
Chapter 2: Morehouse College
Chapter 3: Crozer Seminary
Chapter 4: Boston University
Chapter 5: Coretta
Chapter 6: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Chapter 7: Montgomery Movement Begins
Chapter 8: The Violence of Desperate Men
Chapter 10: The Expanding Struggle
Chapter 11: Birth of a New Nation
Chapter 12: Brush with Death
Chapter 13: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
Chapter 14: The Sit-In Movement
Chapter 15: Atlanta Arrest and Presidential Politics
Chapter 16: The Albany Movement
Chapter 18: The Birmingham Campaign
Chapter 19: Freedom Now!
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Lerone Martin
Benjamin Mays appointed president of Morehouse
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August 1, 1940
Benjamin Mays is appointed president of Morehouse College.
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