9. Thinking about language II

Martin Luther King’s  (contribute) to our history as an outstanding leader began when he came to the  (assist) of Rosa Parks, a seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. In those days American Blacks were confined to positions of second class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To break these laws would mean  (subjugate) and  (humiliate) by the police and the legal system. Beatings,  (imprison) and sometimes death awaited those who defied the System. Martin Luther King’s tactics of protest involved non-violent  (resist) to racial injustice.