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MLK JR was born
In 1929
Martin Luther King, Jr was born in Atlanta to teacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King -
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MLK JR's Life
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Pastor
His dad had stepped in to be a pastor for a church in which they were having the funeral for his father in law. After he became a successful minister and adopted the name Martin Luther King Sr. in honor of the religious leader. -
Heart Attack
In 1941 Kings grandma had a heart attack which had resulted in her death when he was only 12 years old. King was devastated when he found out what had happened because he was at a parade at the time when his parents told him he couldn't. this resulted in king attempting suicide a while later. -
Joining college
In 1944 he entered college with him starting to be the popular student especially with the female students, but was un motivated student and floated the first two years of school. -
Class Captain
In 1948 King earned a sociology degree from morehouse college and went to the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester Pennsylvania. He thrived in all his studies and was valedictorian of his class in 1951, and elected student body president. -
King is doing better for himself
In 1954 he was still working on his dissertation King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. and earned his degree in 1955 when he was was only 25 years old. -
The Montgomery Boycott
Helped organize the first major protest of the African American civil rights movement known as the montgomery bus boycott -
Spreading the Word
In february 1958 the SCLC sponsored more than 20 mass meetings in key southern cities to register black voters in the South. King met with religious and civil rights leaders and lectured all over the country on race-related issues. -
I Have A Dream
In 1963 Bayard Bustin and A. Phillip Randolph led a massive march on Washington for freedom and jobs which had the grand finale of Kings most memorable speech, the "I Have A Dream" speech.
