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Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 1: Early Years
Chapter 2: Morehouse College
Chapter 3: Crozer Seminary
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Chapter 6: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Chapter 7: Montgomery Movement Begins
Chapter 8: The Violence of Desperate Men
Chapter 10: The Expanding Struggle
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King delivers "It's Hard to Be a Christian" at Dexter
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February 5, 1956
King preaches at Dexter on “It’s Hard to Be a Christian.”
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