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| - | American civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., was born on January 15, 1929 in the family home at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. (The site is now classified as a national historic landmark.) King was raised in a regimented and religious home, but lived a comfortable existence as a child. As a young boy he was particularly loud or noticeable, but was a very gifted student. In fact, he did so well on the college entrance exams in his junior year of high school that he was allowed to bypass the remainder of high school and enroll in Morehouse College at the age of fifteen. <br /> | + | American civil rights icon Michael Luther King Jr., was born on January 15, 1929 in the family home at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. (The site is now classified as a national historic landmark.) King was raised in a regimented and religious home, but lived a comfortable existence as a child. As a young boy he was particularly loud or noticeable, but was a very gifted student. In fact, he did so well on the college entrance exams in his junior year of high school that he was allowed to bypass the remainder of high school and enroll in Morehouse College at the age of fifteen. Later had his name changed to Martin <br /> |
| - | While in school, King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and graduated two years later with a Ph.D. in divinity studies from Boston University. Although King could have easily settled for a comfortable life as a middle-class Baptist Minister, he instead sacrificed the promise of contentment and dedicated his life to the struggle for justice and equality for blacks, enduring endless arrests, harassment, and death threats. In the end, however, King’s belief in the civil rights struggle cost him his life as on April 4, 1968, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Junior was laid to rest in a tomb at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. | + | While in school, King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and graduated two years later with a Ph.D. in divinity studies from Boston University. Although King could have easily settled for a comfortable life as a middle-class Baptist Minister, he instead sacrificed the promise of contentment and dedicated his life to the struggle for justice and equality for blacks, enduring endless arrests, harassment, and death threats. In the end, however, King?s belief in the civil rights struggle cost him his life as on April 4, 1968, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Junior was laid to rest in a tomb at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| <b>Work History</b> | <b>Work History</b> | ||
| "1947 Receives license to preach and assists father who is a pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. 1948 Ordained as a Baptist minister. 1954 Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama. 1955 The Montgomery Improvement, MIA, Association is formed with King nominated as president. The MIA was formed to support Rosa Parks who was protesting the segregation policy of the Montgomery Transit Service. 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed and King is elected President. 1959 King flies to India as the guest of Prime Minister Nehru to study with Ghandi in the techniques of non-violent resistance; Later in the year King joins his father as co-pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. 1961 King begins The Freedom Riders, a group of activists that will travel eastern America protesting segregation. 1962 Martin Luther King is invited to meet President John F. Kennedy to discuss racial issues. 1963 King leads the largest and most remembered civil rights march in American history where he addressed the crowd at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortalized ""I have a dream"" speech. 1964 Martin Luther King witnesses Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act. 1966 Martin Luther King and his family move to Chicago to start the Chicago Project, the northern civil rights movement. 1967 King initiates the Poor People's Campaign which focuses on jobs and a decent standard of living for poor people of all racial backgrounds." | "1947 Receives license to preach and assists father who is a pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. 1948 Ordained as a Baptist minister. 1954 Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama. 1955 The Montgomery Improvement, MIA, Association is formed with King nominated as president. The MIA was formed to support Rosa Parks who was protesting the segregation policy of the Montgomery Transit Service. 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed and King is elected President. 1959 King flies to India as the guest of Prime Minister Nehru to study with Ghandi in the techniques of non-violent resistance; Later in the year King joins his father as co-pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. 1961 King begins The Freedom Riders, a group of activists that will travel eastern America protesting segregation. 1962 Martin Luther King is invited to meet President John F. Kennedy to discuss racial issues. 1963 King leads the largest and most remembered civil rights march in American history where he addressed the crowd at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortalized ""I have a dream"" speech. 1964 Martin Luther King witnesses Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act. 1966 Martin Luther King and his family move to Chicago to start the Chicago Project, the northern civil rights movement. 1967 King initiates the Poor People's Campaign which focuses on jobs and a decent standard of living for poor people of all racial backgrounds." | ||
