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Who was responsible for getting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. out of jail in October of 1960? Why?

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User Yishus
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Answer:

Charges are dropped.

Step-by-step explanation:

He was arrested and sent to jail because he was protesting, the treatment of blacks in Alabama. The charges were dropped for sit-in arrest but is held for violating probation for earlier traffic offense and transferred to Reidsville State Prison.

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