Martin Luther King

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  • Graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta

  • Graduates from Crozer Theological Seminary

  • Supreme Court rules racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional (Brown v. Board of Education)

  • Rosa Parks is arrested on Montgomery bus Leads protest involving Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott begins

  • Becomes president of new Southern Christian

    Leadership Conference (SCLC)
    Featured on Time Magazine cover
    Delivers his first national address, “Give Us The Ballot”
    Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Visits India to study nonviolent tactics, meets Gandhi’s family

  • Writes his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Meets with President John F. Kennedy

    Delivers “I Have a Dream” speech at Lincoln Memorial to 250,000 people at the
    March on Washington

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law Receives Nobel Peace Prize, youngest person ever

    Named Time Magazine “Man of the Year”

  • Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson and arrest

  • Thurgood Marshall appointed first black on U.S. Supreme Court

  • Organizes (with the SCLC) the “Poor People’s Campaign” on Washington Leads striking sanitation workers in a march in Memphis Delivers his last speech,“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis

  • President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 covering voter registration

    More than 300,000 people march with his coffin through Atlanta

  • Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter