MLK Timeline

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    MLK Timeline

    this is a timeline of MLK

  • MLK Was Born

    This is the day that MLK was born in Atlanta Georgia.

  • MLK Jr. Spoke for the Montgomery bus boycott

    This day MLK Jr. Spoke in-front of nearly 5,000 people. This took place about 5 days after Rosa Parks was arrested for not moving from her seat for a white man.
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    Birmingham Campaign

    This Campaign was to divide the segregation system by putting pressure on merchants in Birmingham during Easter.

  • MLK Jr gives his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech

    This Speech was delivered on Aug 28th,1963 at the Lincoln
    Memorial.

  • MLK Jr. March for jobs and freedom

    March for jobs and freedom was a very successful peaceful protest that about more than 200,000 people attended to at the nations capital

  • MLK Jr won the Nobel Prize

    On this date MLK Jr won the Nobel prize, this made him the youngest person to win the Nobel prize. He won this Nobel prize for Peace.

  • MLK Jr Was Assassinated

    MLK Jr was shot and killed by a man named Earl Ray on April 4th shorty after 6 p.m.