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„ » :o . . <A>*» » » « « V* <•. < « • 1 ■ - — •*«* • & ? •5’ & ®l|e F o rtian i» © h scru er Martin Luther King Jr. Special Edition Jan. /■?, 1999 C25 & -A racial segregation on city bus lines is unconstitutional. Dr. King is a speaker before the platform com mittee o f the D em o cratic Party in Chicago. M ayor Gayle o f M ontgom ery instructs the city ’s legal departm ent “to file such proceedings as it may deem proper to stop the operation of car pools and transportation system s growing out o f the boycott. T he U nited States S uprem e Court affirms the decision o f the three-judge district court in declar ing unconstitional A labam a's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses. Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are served on ciy and bus com pany officials in M ontgom ery. Injuctions are also served on stte officials. segregation in public schools is un constitutional. King is installed by Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., as the 20th pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church, Mont- gomery. 1929 Jan. 15 M artin Luther King Jr., is bom to Rev. and Mrs. M artin Luther King Sr. (the form er A lberta Christine W illiams), in Atlanta, Ga. 1955 King receives a Ph D. degree in System atic Theology from Boston University. The K ings’ first child, Yolanda Denise, is born in M ontgom ery. M rs. R osa P ark s, a 4 2 -tw o - y e a r - o ld M o n to g o m e ry s e a m stre s s, re fu se s to re lin q u ish her bus se a t to w hite m an and is a r re ste d . T h e first day o f th e b u s b o y c o tt. T he tria l fo r M rs. P rks. A m e e tin g o f m o v e m en t le ad ers is held. D r. K ing is u n an im o u sly e le c te d p re sid e n t o f an o rg a n iz a tio n nam ed the M o n tg o m ery Im p ro v e m e n t A sso c itio n , a nam e p ro p o s e d by R e v e re n d R a lp h 1935-1944 King attends David T. Howard Elementary School, A tlanta U niver sity Laboratory School, and Booker T. W ashington High School. He passes the entrance exam ination to M orehouse College (Atlanta) w ith out graduating from high school. 1947 King is licensed to preach and become assistant to his father, who is p asto r o f the E b en e ze r B a p tist Church, Atlanta. King waits for an ambulance moments after a deranged woman stabbed him with a letter opener at a New York store in Sept. 1958. He later referred to this incident in his speeches whenever he was preoccupied with death. 1948 A b ern ath y . The M ontgom ery Bus Co. sus pends service in black neighbor- hoods. King is ordained to the Baptist m in is tr y . H e g r a d u a te s fro m M orehouse College with a B.A. de gree in sociology. King enters Crozer Theological Sem inary, C hester, P ennsyvania. After hearing Dr. A.J. M uste and Dr. M ordecai W. Johnson preach on the life and teachings of M ahatm aG anhi, he begins to study G andhi seriously. 1956 1951 King graduates from Crozer with a B.D. degree. 1953 King marries C oretta Scott in M arion, Ala. 1954 The Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously in Brown vs Board o f Education that racial King and his wife, Coretta. meet with reporters on the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse before his trail in March 1956 for violating a state law forbidding boycotts. Dr. King is arrested on a charge of traveling 30 m iles per hour in a 25 mile-per-hour zone in Montgomery. He is released on his own recogni zance. A bomb is thrown onto the porch of Dr. King’s M ontgom ery home. Mrs. King and Mrs. Roscoe W il liams, wife o f a church member, are in the house with baby Y olanda Denise; no one is injured. A suit is filed in federal district court asking that M o n tg o m ery ’s travel segregation laws be declared unconstitutional. Dr. King is indicted with other figures in the M ontgom ery bus boy cott on the charge o f being party to a conspiracy to hinder and prevent the operation o f business without “just or legal cause.” A U. S. district court rules that Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance ultimately served as the model for King’s pacifist approach to social change. « ¿ fe *4 ■Z‘, '¿F ft. £ » I 1 •>; $ M ontgom ery buses are inte- grated. 1957 »A ... An unexploded bomb is discovered on the front porch of the Kings’ house. The Southern Christian L eader ship Conference (SCLC) is founded. Dr. King is elected its president. Time m agazine puts Dr. King on its cover. Dr. King delivers a speech for the Prayer Pilgrim age for Freedom celebrating the thnd anniversary of the Supreme C ourt’s desegregation decision. The speech, entitled "G ive Us the Ballot,” is given at the Lincoln M em m orial, W ashington, D.C. Dr. King has a conference with the vice-president o f the U nited States, Richard M. Nixon. President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas Naional Guard to escord nine Negro Students to an all- white high school in Little Rock, Ark. The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed by C on gress, creating the Civil Rights C om mission and the civil Rights Division o f the D epartm ent o f Justice. A s e c o n d c h i l d , M a r ti n L u th e r III, is b o rn to D r and M rs. K ing. 'i t ’A ■■ ' »'4 Vi Ài & IN HONOR OF Unintentionally, through a lack of understanding, we don’t value the gifts that give us life... the trees, the air, the water. They speak to us, they sustain us, but we d o n ’t hear and continue the violence against ourselves. We m ust protect our legacy. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 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