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1929 |
This timeline starts on January 15, 1929
when Michael Luther King Jr. (later known as Martin Luther King
Jr.) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Baptist
minister Michael Luther King and Schoolteacher Alberta King.
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1930 |
His brother named Alfred Daniel was born (July 30, 1930 – July 1, 1969). |
1932 |
January: King begins nursery school |
1935 - 1942 |
1935: Baltimore Court rules Donald
Murray must be admitted to white law school |
1939 |
WW2 begins |
1942 - 1943 |
Martin attends Booker T. Washington High
School but leaves before graduation due to his acceptance and
early admission in the Atlanta Morehouse College program for
advanced placement |
1944 |
September: Martin Luther King attends Morehouse College in Atlanta. |
1945 |
WW2 ends |
1946 |
June 3: The U.S. Supreme Court banned
segregation in interstate bus travel |
1947 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to
become a minister and delivered his first prepared sermon in his
father's church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at age 18
in the Summer of 1947 |
1948 |
February 25: Martin Luther King is
appointed to serve as the assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Atlanta. |
1951 |
May: He graduates from Crozer with a
Bachelor of Divinity degree at the age of 22 |
1953 |
June 18: Martin marries Coretta Scott at
her parent’s home in Marion, Alabama. Coretta was the younger
daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott |
1954 |
May 17: U.S Supreme Court rules that
racial segregation in the public schools of America was
unconstitutional |
1955 |
May 31: U.S. Supreme Court orders
desegregation of the public schools "with all deliberate speed"
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1956 |
January 30: Dr. Martin Luther King’s
house is bombed, there are no injuries |
1957 |
January – The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) is formed to form a strategy for
ending segregation, and Martin Luther King is elected president. |
1958 |
June 23: Dr. King meets with President
Eisenhower |
1959 |
February 2 - March 10: Martin Luther
King and Coretta visit India as guests of Prime Minister Nehru |
1960 |
February: King and his family move to
Atlanta where he serves as assistant pastor to his father at
Ebenezer Baptist Church |
1961 |
January 31: Their third child, Dexter
Scott is born in Atlanta, Georgia |
1962 |
September 30: Riots break out on the campus at the University of Mississippi |
1963 |
March 28: Dr. King’s fourth child,
Bernice Albertine is born in Atlanta, Georgia |
1964 |
January 3: Time Magazine honors Dr. King
as "Man of the Year" |
1965 |
February 21: Malcolm X is assassinated
in New York City |
1966 |
January 13: Robert C. Weaver becomes the
first Black to serve in the cabinet as Secretary of Housing and
Urban Affairs |
1967 |
January: Dr. King’s fourth book, Where
Do We Go from Here? Chaos or Community is published |
1968 |
March 28 – King leads striking
sanitation workers in a march in Memphis, Tennessee. The march
erupts in violence. |
1977 |
He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter |
1986 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States |
1998 |
April 23: James Earl Ray the convicted killer of D. King died in prison of liver failure |
2004 |
Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal |
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