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He was arrested in 1960 for violating his parole on a traffic citation. This was after lunch counter demonstration in Atlanta. The arrest was done to harass him. John F. Kennedy worked to get him released. Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times in all for participating in peaceful demonstrations.

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The situation was becoming so tense that MLK's house was bombed, all of the bus services had to shut down because they were losing money. MLK was arrested and ended up with a US Supreme Court and there they decided that black people didn't have to give up their seats.

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