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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
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