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He was born at noon on January 15, 1929.
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In 1953 he marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama.
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An unexploded bomb was discover on Dr. Kings front porch.
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In 1960, he becomes co-pastor with his father at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is released.
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Dr. King delivered his last speech,Titled “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top,” at the Mason Temple, the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Dr. King’s life was ended by an assassin’s bullet while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
