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Martin Luther King JR. becomes [astor of a church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King JR. accepted leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demenstration of contemporary times in the United Staes.
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He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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He was named man of the year by times magazine
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He won the prize when he was only 35 years old. He was the youngest man to win this prize
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He was to lead a protest sympathy march on this day but never made it because he was assassinated
