The Securities and Exchange Commission<span> (SEC) is a federal agency responsible for regulating the </span>securities<span> industry and for enforcing federal </span>securities<span> law. It is meant to protect the public against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the </span>securities<span> markets.</span>
As the leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. traversed the country in his quest for freedom. His involvement in the movement began during the bus boycotts of 1955 and was ended by an assassin's bullet in 1968.
