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1959
• Visited India to study Mohandas Gandhi's
philosophy o f nonviolence.
• Resigns from pastoring the Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church to concentrate on civil rights full
time. He moved to Atlanta to direct the activities of
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
And there comes a time when one must
take a position that is neither safe, nor_
politic, nor popular: but one
must take it because it is right.
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— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is
released.
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
founded to coordinate protests at Shaw University,
Raleigh, N.C.
1961
• In November, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission bans segregation in interstate travel due to
work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Freedom
Riders.
• Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) began first
Freedom Ride
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bus, after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed
segregation in interstate transportation.
1960
• Becomes co-pastor with his father at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
• Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, N.
C. In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in
waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sen
tenced to four months in jail, but after intervention
1962
• During the unsuccessful Albany, Ga. movement,
King is arrested on July 27 and jailed.
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1963
• On Good
Friday, April
12, King is
arrested with
Ralph
Abernathy by
Police Commis
sioner Eugene
"BulTConnor
fordemonstrat-
ing without a
permit.
• On April 13,
the Birmingham
campaign is
launched. This would prove to be the turning point
in the war to end segregation in the South.
• During the 11 days he spent in jail, M LK writes
his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
• On May 10, the Birmingham agreement is
announced. The stores, restaurants, and schools
will be desegregated, hiring of blacks implemented,
and charges dropped.
• On June 23, M LK leads 125,000 people on a
Freedom Walk in Detroit.
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