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Martin Luther King Jr. Special Edition
Jan. /■?, 1999
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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.
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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.
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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.
THE CITY OF PORTLAND/MULTNOMAH COUNTY
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OFFICE
PLEDGES A COMMITMENT TO
"REDEFINING THE DREAM FOR THE NEXT
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M u ltn o m a h C o unty
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dream.
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