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Martin Luther King Jr. Timeline

  • Martin Luther King Jr is born

    Martin Luther King Jr is born
    In Atlanta Georgia
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    Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • MLK Joins his first protest

    MLK Joins his first protest
    Against segregated Elevator services
  • Martin Luther King Jr enters college

    Martin Luther King Jr enters college
    He skips over senior year and goes right to Morehouse Collage
  • MLK becomes a baptist minister

    MLK becomes a baptist minister
    He becomes a minister at his Church.
  • MLK joins bus Boycott

    MLK joins bus Boycott
    After Rosa Parks is arrested after not mocing to the back of her bus
  • MLK becomes the leader of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration

    MLK becomes the leader of the  Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration
    He becomes their chairman and leades them in protest in the south
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    He lead 250,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial to protest segregation.
  • MLK earns the Nobel Peace Prize

    MLK earns the Nobel Peace Prize
    He earns it in Olso Norway and is the youngest person ever to earn it.
  • Lyndon Johnson signes the Voting Right act

    Lyndon Johnson signes the Voting Right act
    Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights activist watched as he signed it.
  • MLK joins the Poor Peoples Campaign

    MLK joins the Poor Peoples Campaign
    In Memphis Tennessee
  • MLK is assasinated

    MLK is assasinated
    On a motel balcony in Memphis Tennesse