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Free speech protects the civil rights movements of the past, present, and future

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Free speech protects the civil rights movements of the past, present, and future

The freedom to speak messages some people don’t want to hear is essential to civil rights. In fact, without the protections of the First Amendment, there probably wouldn’t have been a civil rights movement.

Fifty-six years ago this spring, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. His crime? “Parading without a permit.” How was he supposed to get a permit?

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