I'd rather go to jail with dignity ..
February 18 Time magazine puts Dr. King on its cover.
1*28 Ja n u a ry 18 Martin Luther Kin«. Jr., is born to Reverend and Mrs.
Martin Luther Kin«, Sr (the former Alberta Christine Williams), in Atlan
ta, Georgia.
May 17. Dr King delivers a speech for the Prayer Pilgrimage For freedom
celebrating the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's desegregation de
1838-1*44. Kin« attends David T. Howard Elementary School. Atlanta
University Laboratory School, and Booker T. Washington High School. He
does not graduate from high school, but enters Morehouse College (Atlan
ta) by passing the entrance examination.
cision. The speech, entitled "Give Us the Ballot." is given at the Lincoln
Memorial. Washington. D.C.
1*47 King is licensed to preach and become assistant to his father, who is
pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Atlanta.
S ep tem b er 2. Dr. King addresses a Labor Day seminar on the twenty-
fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School. Monteagle. Tennessee
June 13 Dr. King meets with then-U.S. vice president, Richard Nixon.
1*48 February 26 King is ordained as a Baptist minister.
S ep tem b e r President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas Na
tional Guard to escort nine Negro students to an all-white high school in
Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ju n e King graduates from Morehouse with a B A. in sociology.
Septem ber King enters Crozer Theological Seminary in C hester, Pa A f
ter hearing Dr A. J. Muste and Dr. Mordecai W Johnson preach on the life
and teaching of Mahatma Gandhi, he begins to study Gandhi seriously.
S ep tem b er 9 The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed by
Congress, creating the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Divi
sion of the Department of Justice
1861 June King leaves Crozer with a B.D. degree.
1863 June 18. King marries Coretta Scott in Marion. Alabama
O ctober 23 A second child. Martin Luther III, is born to Dr. and Mrs.
King.
1864 May 17. The SupremeCourt of the United States rules unanimously in
Brown vs. Board o f Education that racial segregation in public schools is
unconstitutional.
1958
1864 O ctober 31. King is installed by Rev. Martin Luther King. Sr., as the
twentieh pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church, Montgomery.
1966 June 6 Boston University grants King the Ph D. in Systematic Theol
ogy
N ovem ber 17. Yolanda Denise King born in Montgomery.
D ecem ber 1. Mrs. Rosa Parks, a forty-two-year-old Montgomery seams
tress, refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white man. and is arrested.
D ecem ber 6. The first day of the bus boycott. The trial of Mrs. Parks. A
meeting of movement leaders is held. Dr. King is unanimously elected presi
dent of the Montgomery Improvement Association, whose name is pro
posed by Rev. Ralph Abernathy.
D ecem ber 10. The Montgomery Bus Company suspends service in Black
neighborhoods.
1956
1956 January 26. Dr King is arrested on a charge of traveling thirty miles
an hour is a twenty-five-mile-an-hour zone in Montgomery. He is released
on his own recognizance.
January 30. A bomb is thrown onto the porch of Dr. King's home in Mont
gomery. Mrs. King and Mrs. Roscoe Williams are in the house with baby
Yolanda. No one is injured.
February 2. A suit is filed in federal district court asking that Montgomery s
travel segregation laws be declared unconstitutional.
September 3. 1968
Montgomery. Alabama
June 23 Dr. King, along with Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, A Philip Ran
dolph. and Lester Granger, meets with President Eisenhower.
February 21 Dr. King is indicted with other figures in the Montgomery bus
boycott on the charge of being party to a conspiracy to hinder and prevent
the operation of business withou "just or legal cause
Septem ber 3. Dr. King is arrested on a charge of loitering (later changed to
"failure to obey an officer” ) in the vicinity of the Montgomery Recorder's
Court. He is released on one hundred dollars bond
June 4. A United Stales District Court rules that racial segregation on city
bus lines is unconstitutional.
June 27 Dr. King is the guest speaker at the annual NAACP convention in
San Francisco.
A u g u st 10. Dr King is a speaker before the platform committee of the
Democratic Party in Chicago.
N ovem ber 13. The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the lower court in declar
ing unconstitutional Alabamas's state and local laws requiring segregation
on buses.
D ecem ber 21. Montgomery buses are integrated
1957
1957 Jan uary 27. An unexploded bomb is discovered on Dr. and Mrs.
King’s front porch
January 10 11. The Southern Christian l eadership Conference (SCI C) is
formed at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta. Dr. King is elected its pre
sident.
Sit In: 1980
E H O L D THESE TRUTHS T O BE SELF-EVIDENT;
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THAT ALL M E N ARE CREATED EQUAL.
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IN OBSERVANCE
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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