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Delivers the famous ''I have a Dream''speech during the March on Washington -
Helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Becomes a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montamery Alabama -
Marries Coretta Scott in Marion ,Alabama -
Earns a B.A in Divinity from Crozer Thedogical Seminary -
Gradnates from Moorehouse College with a Sociology degree -
Grew up in a comfortable middle-class family. His father, Martin Luther King Sr., was a prominent Baptist pastor. -
Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Attended Morehouse College at age 15, an historically Black university. He later earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University
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Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to nonviolence -
Leads the Selma to Montogomery marches contributing to the passage of the Voting Rights Act -
Speaks out against the Vietnam War and Launches the Poor People's Campaign -
Assassinated on April 4 in Memphis Tennessee while supporting striking sanitation workers