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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 January 15, l929 Martin Luther King Jr. is born September, 1935 Martin Luther King begins school at the all black Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta June 1944 • Martin Luther King enters Morehouse College in Atlanta February, l948 • Martin Luther King is ordained as a Baptist minister. After graduating from Morehouse College in June, he enters the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania Crozer Theological Seminary June 18, 1953 Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott are married. Coretta Scott King October, l954 • October, l954 Martin Luther King becomes pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter Avenue Church June 1955 • Martin Luther King receives his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University. November 17, l955 • Yolanda Denise King, the King's first child, is born. Yolanda Denise King December 1, l955 • Mrs. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. December 5, 1955 • Martin Luther King is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and lead a year long boycott of the Montgomery busses. Rosa Parks died in 2005 January 26, l956 • Martin Luther King is arrested for the first time, for a traffic violation. January, 1957 • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded. Dr. King is chosen president. February, 1959 • Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visit India. They study Mahatma Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protest. January, l960 • The King family moves to Atlanta, where Martin Luther King becomes co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr. Ebenezer Baptist Church • February, l960 • Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage the first "sit-ins" at "whites-only" lunch counters. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Lunch Counter Sit-Ins October l9, l960 • Martin Luther King is jailed after being arrested at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Atlanta. January 30, l961 • Dexter Scott King is born. May, l961 • "Freedom riders" leave Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The bus is burned by opponents of desegregation, and the riders are beaten upon arrival in Birmingham, Alabama. September, 1962 • Black student James Meredith attempts to enroll at the at the all-white University of Mississippi. March 28, l963 • Bernice Albertine King is born. April l2, l963 • Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed (for the thirteenth time) during a march in Birmingham, Alabama. May, l963 • Dogs and fire hoses are used by police in Birmingham to stop protests. August 28, l963 • 250,000 people demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in support of civil rights. Martin Luther King meets with President John F. Kennedy and delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. November 22, l963 • President Kennedy is assassinated. August, l964 • Three young civil rights workers are found murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. December, l964 • Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize. March, l965 • Martin Luther King and the SCLC begin a voter registration campaign in Alabama. Civil rights protesters attempting to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, are beaten by state patrolmen. August, 1965 • The 1965 Voting Right Act is signed by President Johnson. March 28, l968 • Martin Luther King leads a march in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. April 3, l968 • Martin Luther King delivers his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop.“ April 4, l968 • Martin Luther King is shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. • Dr. King Timeline and art work was created by students of Room 100 at the Buckman School in Los Angeles Less Famous Facts • The main item on King’s agenda in spring of 1968 was the organization of a Poor Peoples’ March on Washington where thousands of disenfranchised Americans of all races would descend on the capital and protest the country’s economic inequality. Poor People’s Campaign – Protest against economic inequality among American people – Brought together black, white, Native American, and Hispanic poor – Lived in a shantytown in D.C from May 14 – June 24, 1968 – The movement was begun by King, but carried out by Reverent Ralph Abernathy Resurrection City, Aerial View Resurrection City Not Much Has Changed On the Other Hand… • 12.6% of the population was below the poverty threshold in 2005 • 17.6% of children were in poverty • 20.0% of children under 6 live in poverty • 52.9% of children under 6, living with a female householder with no spouse present lived in poverty • In 2005, 15.9 million people were classified as “severely poor” – family incomes less than 50% of their poverty threshold. – The severely poor represented 43.1% of the poor population • As health care costs continue to rise as a percentage of family income, more families (including middle income) are unable to afford health insurance – In 2005, 46.6 million were without health insurance (15.9%) The King Center 1968 MLK Jr. Holiday Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Future National MLK, Jr. Memorial in D.C. 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