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Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Martin went to Yonge Street Elementry School in Atlanta, Geogia. The school was segregated. Every student at his school was African American
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Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.
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Graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. marries Coretta Scott
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Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King's first child, Yolanda Denise is born in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1 for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. On December 5, Martin Luther King, Jr. is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s house is bombed but no one is hurt.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s first book, "Stride Toward Freedom" (Harper), is published. The book features his recollections of the Montgomery bus boycott.
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After meeting with President John F. Kennedy, Dr. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 250,000 people.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. He is the youngest man to recieve the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his last speech, entitled "I've Been to the Mountain Top," at the Mason Temple, the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life was ended by an assassin's bullet while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassin was later discovered to be James Earl Ray.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s body was viewed by mourners on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, April 7, 1968. His funeral was eulogized at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta on April 9. He was laid to rest at the South View Cemetery. More than 300,000 people marched through Atlanta with his mule-drawn coffin.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill creating a legal public holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
