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January 13, 2021
2021 special edition
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Did You Know? 10 facts about Martin Luther King Jr.
Protesting
injustice in
Montgomery,
Ala., in 1958,
Rev. Martin
Luther King
Jr. is arrested
for loitering.
The house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta where Martin Luther King Jr. was born.
1. Martin Luther King Jr.
skipped two grades in high school,
9th and 11th, and entered college
(Morehouse College) at the age
of 15 in 1944. By 19, he received a
bachelor’s degree in sociology.
2. His honeymoon was spent
at a funeral parlor. This was not
because someone died, simply
because a friend owned the parlor
and offered to let him use it for his
honeymoon.
3. His house was once bombed.
This was during the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, which lasted 385
days.
4. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
autopsy revealed that stress had
taken a major toll on his body.
Despite being only 39 when he
passed away, one of his doctors
noted that he had “the heart of a
60 year old”.
5. Today over 700 streets in the
Unites States are named after
Martin Luther King Jr. There
is one such street in almost every
major city.
6. King’s “I Have a Dream”
speech was not his first at the
Lincoln Memorial.
7. King narrowly escaped an
assassination attempt a decade
before his death.
8. Members of King’s family did
not believe James Earl Ray acted
alone.
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gives
a speech during a 1965 event
supporting a boycott against the
segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.