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Martin Ruther King Jr.

1929 ~ 1986

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1986
11.02 0 A national holiday is proclaimed in King's honor

36 USC 169j -- (United States Code, Title 36 (Patriotic Socieites and Observances), Chapter 9 (National Observances)

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1968
04.09 0 King's funeral on April 9 is an international event

Within a week of the assassination, the Open Housing Act is passed by Congress.

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04.04 0 Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot

while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. There are riots and disturbances in 130 American cities. There were twenty thousand arrests.

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03.28 0 Leads a march that turns violent

This was the first time one of his events had turned violent.

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0 Announces that the Poor People's Campaign

Culminating in a March on Washington, demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights guaranteeing employment to the able-bodied, incomes to those unable to work, and an end to housing discrimination. Dr. King marches in support of sanitation workers on strike in Memphis, Tennessee.

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1967
11.27 0 The inception of the Poor People's Campaign

focusing on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.

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0 US Supreme Court upholds a conviction of MLK

By a Birmingham court for demonstrating without a permit. King spends four days in Birmingham jail.

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1966
07.10 0 Initiates a campaign to end discrimination

In housing, employment, and schools in Chicago.

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06. 0 Begins the March Against Fear through the South.

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01.22 0 King moves into a Chicago slum

tenement to attract attention to the living conditions of the poor.

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1965
02.02 0 Arrested in Selma, Alabama

After President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, Martin Luther King, Jr. turns to socioeconomic problems, during a voting rights demonstration.

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1964
07.02 0 Attends the signing ceremony of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the White House

During the summer, King experiences his first hurtful rejection by black people when he is stoned by Black Muslims in Harlem. King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10. Dr. King is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace at age 35.

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01.03 0 Appears on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year

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1963
11.22 0 President Kennedy is assassinated.

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06.23 3 MLK leads 125,000 people on a Freedom Walk in Detroit

The March on Washington held August 28 is the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 people in attendance. At the march, King makes his famous I Have a Dream speech.

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05.10 0 Birmingham agreement is announced

The stores, restaurants, and schools will be desegregated, hiring of blacks implemented, and charges dropped.

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04.13 0 Birmingham campaign is launched

This would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South. During the eleven days he spent in jail, MLK writes his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail

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04.12 0 Arrested with Ralph Abernathy

"Bull" Connor for demonstrating without a permit. by Police Commissioner Eugene

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1962
07.27 1246 Arrested during the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement

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1961
11. 0 The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation

in interstate travel due to work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders. Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) began first Freedom Ride through the South, in a Greyhound bus, after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in interstate transportation.

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1960
0 Becomes co-pastor with his father

at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, North Carolina. In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is released. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee founded to coordinate protests at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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1959
0 Visited India to study Mohandas Gandhi

The philosophy of nonviolence. Resigns from pastoring the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to concentrate on civil rights full time. He moved to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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1958
0 US Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction

King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published. On a speaking tour, Martin Luther King, Jr. is nearly killed when stabbed by an assailant in Harlem. Met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Grange on problems affecting black Americans.

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1957
05.17 0 Dr. King speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, D.C.

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0 King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Fighting segregation and achieve civil rights.

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1956
11.13 0 US Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal

ensuring victory for the boycott.

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1955
06.05 0 Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from BU

Dissertation Title: A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wiseman. Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. On December 5, he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.

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1953
0 Marries Coretta Scott, settles in Montgomery, Alabama

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1951
0 Enters Boston University for graduate studies

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1948
02.25 0 Graduates from Morehouse College

enters Crozer Theological Seminary. Ordained to the Baptist ministry

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1944
0 Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School

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1929
01.15 0 Born in 501 Auburn Ave. Atlanta, Georgia

Parents: The Reverend and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr.

Martin Ruther King Jr.

1929 ~ 1986

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11.02 0 A national holiday is proclaimed in King's honor

04.09 0 King's funeral on April 9 is an international event

04.04 0 Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot

03.28 0 Leads a march that turns violent

0 Announces that the Poor People's Campaign

11.27 0 The inception of the Poor People's Campaign

0 US Supreme Court upholds a conviction of MLK

07.10 0 Initiates a campaign to end discrimination

06. 0 Begins the March Against Fear through the South.

01.22 0 King moves into a Chicago slum

02.02 0 Arrested in Selma, Alabama

07.02 0 Attends the signing ceremony of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the White House

01.03 0 Appears on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year

11.22 0 President Kennedy is assassinated.

06.23 3 MLK leads 125,000 people on a Freedom Walk in Detroit

05.10 0 Birmingham agreement is announced

04.13 0 Birmingham campaign is launched

04.12 0 Arrested with Ralph Abernathy

07.27 1246 Arrested during the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement

11. 0 The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation

0 Becomes co-pastor with his father

0 Visited India to study Mohandas Gandhi

0 US Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction

05.17 0 Dr. King speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, D.C.

0 King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

11.13 0 US Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal

06.05 0 Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from BU

0 Marries Coretta Scott, settles in Montgomery, Alabama

0 Enters Boston University for graduate studies

02.25 0 Graduates from Morehouse College

0 Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School

01.15 0 Born in 501 Auburn Ave. Atlanta, Georgia