Martin Luther King Jr

By deepayne

  • martin luther king was born

    He was born in Atlanta, Ga

  • Martin Luther King Jr. entered public school at age 5.

  • Martian Luther skipped both 9th and 11th grade and entered Morehouse College

  • Martin Luther King Jr. earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College and attended the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania

  • Dr. King led the SCLC

    It was in the mid 50's

  • Martian Luther King married Corretta Scott

    they had one child together named Alberta

  • King and 75 students entered a local department store and requested lunch-counter service but were denied.

  • the historic March on Washington drew more than 200,000 people in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial

    it was the "I have A Dream" speech

  • played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and also created the Civil Right Acts

  • Martain Luther king won Noble Peace prize

  • Civil Rights March Selma To Alabama turn violent

  • a procession of 2,500 marchers, both black and white, set out once again to cross the Pettus Bridge and confronted barricades and state troopers.

  • Created the Voting Rights

  • King and the SCLC embarked on an ambitious program known as the Poor People’s Campaign, which was to include a massive march on the capital.

  • King was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, where he had traveled to support a sanitation workers’ strike.

  • James Earl Ray pleaded to the murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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