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Martin Luther King Dmour

By rmeyer

  • MLK's Birth

    Martin Lurher King is born on January 15th 1929.
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    MLK timeline

  • Michael Luther King to Martin Luther King

    Michael Luther King (aka) Martin Luther King Jr's dad changed his name because he wanted to honor the Greman solider, Martin Luther.

  • King attends Morehouse College at age 15

    King at age 15, skips 9th-12th grade to attend Morehouse College.

  • King's Graduation day

    King Graduates from Morehouse College at the age of 19

  • Martin Luther King moves to Alabama

    King get married and moves to Mountgomery, Alabama.

  • Maritn Luther King Joins the "Bus Boycott"

    Martin Luther King joins the "Mountgomery Bus Boycott" after Rosa Parks get arrested.

  • The Bus Boycott comes to an end

    The Bus Boycott comes to an end after the Suprerme Court rules it illegal to segragate people on a bus in 1956.

  • A first Civil Rights Act has passed

    The first Civil Rights Act was passed since reconstruction.

  • Segragation Banned From Travel

    Martin Luther King and the Freedom Riders help ban segragation in interstate travel.

  • MLK is Jailed

    During the unsucessful Albany movement, King gets arrested.

  • The March on Washington

    Martin Luther King and everyone else Marches on Washington D.C with an audience of nearly 250,000 people.

  • The "I Have a Dream" speech is made

    History was made when during the March on Washington, MLK made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Civil Rights Act signing

    MLK joins everyone at the signing ceremony in Washington D.C

  • MLK's first black rejection

    Martin Luther King's first rejection by black's happened in the summer of 1964 by black-muslims in Harlem

  • A Nobel Peace Prize Winner

    MLK wins his first Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35. He is also the youngest person to be awarded this.

  • MLK turns sociceconomic

    After Pres. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act MLK turns sociceconomic.

  • MLK starts a new campign in Chicago

    MLK now starts a new campign to end sergragation in housing, employment, and schooling in Chicago.

  • MLK gets assassinated

    On the sunset of April 4th, MLK gets fatally shot while standing on a balcony in the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis.

  • King's funeral

    King's funeral was held in Memphis at the R.S Lewis Funeral Home and it was a huge international event.

  • The aftermath of MLK"s death

    A week after his death, many violent riots that turned so bad that 20,000+ people got arrested.

  • Martin Luther Ling Day is made

    A national holiday is proclaimed in King's memory and honor.