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Born at noon at the home of

Reverend and Mrs.Martin Luther
King, Sr.

Graduated from
Booker T
Washington High
School and admitted
to Morehouse
College at 15.

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Marries Coretta
Scott and settles
in Montgomery,
Alabama.

Joins the boycott after Rosa Parks

was arrested on December 1.
December 5 he was elected
president of the Montgomery
Improvement Association, (official
Spokesman)

King forms the Southern

Leadership Conference
to fight segregation and
achieve civil rights. May
17 he speaks to a crowd
of 15,000 in Washington,
D.C.

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Leads the March on Washington

making history with nearly
250,000 people. Makes his
I Have a Dream speech.

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Published his fisrt book,

Stride Toward Freedom.
Is nearly killed when stabbed
by an assailant in Harlem. Met
with President Dwight D.
Eisnenhower on problems
affecting black americans.

Delivered the I've Been to the

Mountantop Speech. Fatally shot
on April 4. Funeral was held on
April 9. Open House Act passed.

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Goes to the signing of the Civil

Right Act of 1964 at the White
House . Awarded the Nobel
_Peace Prize, he's the youngest
person to be awarded.

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November 2 national holiday

is made in Kings's honor.