Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King, seen here meeting with college students about the sit-ins, valued the movement for the way it enabled young people to gain confidence in their own leadership. He described the approach as an "electrifying movement of Negro students (that) shattered the placid surface of campuses and communities across the South."
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