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On January 26, 1956 Dr. King was arrested during a sit-in at a restaurant, waiting to be served when the restaurant did not serve African Americans. On February 21, 1956 Dr. King was indicted with other figures in the Montgomery bus boycott on the charge of being party to a conspiracy to hinder and prevent the operation of business without just or legal cause.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in 1956 as part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott was a reaction to the Rosa Parks incident of 1955. At one point, Dr. King's house was bombed. The incident was closed by the US District Court in the decision of Browder v. Gayle, which ended racial segregation on Montgomery Buses. See the Related Link below for more information.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) had several arrests during his non-violent campaign for civil rights. They ranged from failure to obey the police, to trespassing, to illegal assembly, and other misdemeanors.

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He was arrested in 1955 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, along with 155 others, for "hindering a bus" and served two weeks in jail. In 1956, Alabama buses were ordered desegregated.

He was arrested in Albany County, Georgia, on December 16, 1961 as part of mass arrests for civil disobedience, and again when he returned in July, 1962. He was convicted and sentenced to jail. But officials secretly paid his fine and he was released.

He was jailed from April 12 to April 20, 1963 after a protest march in Birmingham, AL after such demonstrations had been prohibited by a court injunction. He famously wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail", which dealt with the need to bring social change by forcing society to confront situations that were legally or morally unjust.

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He got arrested because he lead a boycott for 382 days.

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Martin Luther King Was Arrest For Leading A Protest In The City Of Birmingham, Alabama

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In 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested because he was demonstrating. Mass demonstrations were illegal in Alabama at that time.

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Civil disobedience

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he sat in a white restaurant

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