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ACCELERATIONKING, MARTIN

LUTHER
IN THE LONG FIGHT of black Americans for equal rights, one man stands out for his great commitment to racial equality. Martin Luther King was a Baptist Church minister whose Christian faith informed all his work. He believed in non-violent protest as a way of obtaining change, and led many sit-ins, marches, and voter registration campaigns. King was an inspired speaker, whose words gave hope to millions. His assassination in 1968 dashed many of those hopes.

Civil rights movement

Black Americans were given equal rights under the US Constitution, but were still treated as second-class citizens in many southern states. Local state laws denied black Americans the right to vote or go to multiracial schools. Black and white people were segregated (kept apart) and even had to sit in different seats on buses. Black protests led to a growing civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. King emerged as the charismatic leader of this movement.

Early life
Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the southern USA, on 15 January 1929. King's father was a prominent Baptist minister, inspiring his son to follow him into the church to study theology. King received his doctorate of theology in 1955.
Bus boycott
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested for violating the cirys segregation law. Black residents, led by King and Rev Ralph Abcrnathy, encouraged a boycott of the ciry s buses that led to their desegregation.

Malcolm X
Many black people disagreed with King's aim of full integration of black and white, preferring to aim for

black separatism. Their leader was Malcolm X, who was a member of the Black Muslim movement led by Elijah Muhammad. He later converted to orthodox Islam, and took up the cause of racial unirv.

Sit-ins
A favoured tactic of civil rights campaigners was to stage sit-in demonstrations in segregated restaurants and other public places. In 1960 King was arrested at a segregated lunch counter in an Atlanta department storeHe was sent to prison, and was only released after the intervention of the Democratic presidential candidate, John F. Kennedy-

Freedom rides
In I 961, black and white civil rights protesters defied state segregation laws by travelling together on segregated buses. The government sent in national guardsmen to protect the riders. This led to increased racial tension and activity by the racist Ku KJux Klan, who carried flaming crosses in marches in southern USA.

Little Rock
In 1957, the governor of Arkansas refused to admit nine black children to the all-white Little Rock Central High School. Ptesident Eisenhower sent 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 national guardsmen to protect the children as they went to school.

"I have a dream"

On 28 August 1963, King led
the historic March on Washington to demand civil rights reform. More than 200,000 marchers heard his words: "I have a dream that

one day this nation will rise up

and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'".
Birmingham Jail
King went to jail many times for his beliefs. During a period in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in Spring 1963, he wrote an eloquent letter outlining his philosophy of non-violent protest. He was inspired in this policy by the Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhis non-violence campaign against British rule in India, the movement known as
vitv.i!:r.ih;l 'devotion ro t r u t h l .

MARTIN LUTHER KING

1929 Born in Atlanta, Georgia. 1951 Receives Bachelor of Divinity

Assassination
The last years of King's life were marked by increasing disputes with more radical black leaders who disagreed with his non-violent approach. In April 1968, he \-isited Memphis, Tennessee to offer support to striking city sanitation workers; he was assassinated at the motel where he was staying on 4 April. Protest riots broke out in most major US cities. 1954 Becomes pastor of Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. I960 President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference;

sent to prison for his part in a sitin in Atlanta. 1963 Spells out his doctrine of non-violent protest; leads march on Washington. 1964 Awarded j>Jobel Peace^Prize. 1968 Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. FIN D HUMAN

M O ROUET HRUIGMHATNS SLAVERY SOCIETIES,

UNHIITSETODR SAbuse is a complex psychosocial problem that affects large numbers of adults as well as children throughout the world. It is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) under the heading of Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention. Although abuse was first defined with regard to children when it first received sustained attention in the 1950s, clinicians and researchers now recognize that adults can suffer abuse in a number of different circumstances. Abuse refers to harmful or injurious tlude not only the direct costs of immediate medical and psychiatric treatment of abused people but also the indirect costs of learning difficulties, interrupted education, workplace absenteeism, and long-term health problems of abuse survivors. Types of abuse Physical

The Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) is a rating scale that was designed in the 1970s to measure involuntary movements known as tardive dyskinesia (TD). TD is a disorder that sometimes develops as a side effect of long-term treatment with neuroleptic

(antipsychotic) medications. Purpose

months to monitor the patient for the development of TD. For most patients, TD develops three months after the initiation of neuroleptic therapy; in elderly patients, however, TD can develop after as little as one month. Precautions The AIMS test was originally developed for administration by trained clinicians. People who are not health care professionals, however, can also be taught to administer the test by completing a training seminar. Description