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  Born on January 15, 1929 at noon in Atlanta Georgia.
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  Martin Luther King Jr graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary.
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  He formes the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segeration and achieve civil rights. On may 17 he stood/spook in front of a crowd of 15000 in Washington D.C.
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  The U.S Congress passed the Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. King's first book was published. (Stride Toward Freedom)
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  King attended the signing ceremony of the Civil Rights Act at the White House.
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  King moves into a Chicago slum tenement to attract attention to the living conditions of the poor.