Martin+Luther+King,+Jr.



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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, and he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He Graduated in 1948 from Morehouse College.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which was an organization that lead the civil rights movement
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1958, on a speaking tour, he is nearly killed when stabbed by an assasin in harlem
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1959, he resigned from pastoring the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to focus on civil rights full time.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In 1960, In Atlanta, King was arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but he is released by John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On April 13, 1963 the Birmingham campaign is started. This would be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">During the eleven days he spent in jail, MLK writes his famous <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> Letter From Birghminham Jail
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On May 10, 1963 the Birmingham agreement is announced. The stores, restaurants, and schools will be desegregated. This was a major victory for the civil rights movement
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On June 23, 1963 MLK leads 125,000 people on a Freedom Walk in Detroit.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The March on Washington held August 28, 1963 was the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 people in attendance.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">At the march, King makes his famous I Have A Dream speech.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">On January 3, 1964 King is on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">In 1964, at the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">He donated the prize money from the nobel prize to the civil rights movement.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">On February 2, 1965 King is arrested in Selma, Alabama during a voting rights demonstration.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">On July 10, 1966 King starts a campaign to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schools.
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">On November 27, 1967 King announces the start of the Poor People's Campaign focusing on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">On March 28, 1968 King lead a march that turns violent. This was the first time that one of his events have turned violent
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">At sunset on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. :*(
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">There are riots and disturbances in 130 American cities due to the assasination of Dr. King . There were twenty thousand arrests.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On November 2, 1968 a national holiday is proclaimed in King's honor.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King was a black American Christian who believed that God created everyone equal, no matter if they are black or white. To Dr. King, all humans were made in the image and likeness of God. Because of his religious beliefs, Martin Luther King worked fervently towards equality by organizing non-violent protests. He believed that it was never right to use violence, because this does not express the love of God, but hatred.

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