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Martin Luther King Jr. Timeline

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  • 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