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Martin Luther King Jr is born in Atlanta, GA
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Martin Luther KIng Jr. begins his year at Morehouse College
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Martin Luther king Jr. becomes an ordained minister
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Martin luther King Jr. Finish College at Morehouse with a Bachlore degree in Socialogy
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Martin luther KIng marries Correta Scott King
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MArtin Luther King recieves his PH.D
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Rosa parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white male on a bus which sparkes the Montgumery Bus Boycott which lasts 385 days and leads to the desegragation of buses
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Dr. Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery founded the southern Christain Leadership Conference
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Strides to freedom: The Montgomery story, Kings first book is published
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Martin Luthuer KIng meets privatly with John F. Kennedy
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King meets with President John F. Kennedy and urges him to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation to eliminate racial segregation.
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King, Ralph Abernathy, Albany Movement president William G. Anderson, and other protesters are arrested by Laurie Pritchett during a campaign in Albany, Georgia.
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During the closing session of the SCLC conference in Birmingham, Alabama, a member of the American Nazi Party assaults King, striking him twice in the face.
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Conflict in Birmingham reaches its peak when high-pressure fire hoses force demonstrators from the business district. In addition to hoses, Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor employs dogs, clubs, and cattle prods to disperse four thousand demonstrators in downtown Birmingham.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom attracts more than two hundred thousand demonstrators to the Lincoln Memorial. Organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the march is supported by all major civil rights organizations as well as by many labor and religious groups. King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. After the march, King and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House.
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U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorizes the FBI to wiretap King’s home phone.
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King meets Malcolm X in Washington, D.C. for the first and only time.
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After King criticizes the FBI’s failure to protect civil rights workers, the agency’s director J. Edgar Hoover denounces King as "the most notorious liar in the country." A week later he states that SCLC is "spearheaded by Communists and moral degenerates."
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King receives the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He declares that "every penny" of the $54,000 award will be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle.
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In an event that will become known as "Bloody Sunday," voting rights marchers are beaten at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as they attempt to march to Montgomery.
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King, James Forman, and John Lewis lead civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery after a U.S. District judge upholds the right of demonstrators to conduct an orderly march.
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In Chicago, King meets Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad
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King publicly reveals his plans to organize a mass civil disobedience campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, in Washington, D.C., to force the government to end poverty.
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King leads a march of six thousand protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march descends into violence and looting, and King is rushed from the scene.
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King returns to Memphis, determined to lead a peaceful march. During an evening rally at Mason Temple in Memphis, King delivers his final speech, "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop."
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King is shot and killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.