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Birth
Born January 15th 1929 in Atlanta Georgia -
Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in Marlon, Alabama
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Yolanda Denise, his first child was born
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The Montgomery buses were desegregated.
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He became assistant pastor to his father at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
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during a lunch counter sit-in in Atlanta King was arrested
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King Jr. met with President Kennedy.
King Jr. met with President Kennedy. -
King Jr., along with other protesters, marched from Selma to Montgomery as they voiced their right to vote.
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In Memphis, Tennessee, he lead striking sanitation workers on a march that tragically ended in violence.
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he was shot and killed while standing at the balcony of his motel
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all 50 states officially observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day
