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MLK/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, January 11,1996
A chronology of the life and times
of Martin Luther King Jr.
1929
• January 15
King is born in
Atlanta, Georgia, to
Rev. and Mrs. Martin
Luther King Sr.
1948
• February 25
King is ordained to the
Baptist ministry.
• June
King graduates from
Morehouse College
with a B.A. in sociolo
gy-
• September
King enters Crozer
Theological Seminary
and, after hearing ser
mons on the life and
teachings of Mohandas
Gandhi, begins to
study Gandhi and his
philosophy.
1953
• June 18
King marries Corerta
Scott in Marion,
Alabama.
1954
• May 17
The Supreme Court, in
Brown v. Board of
Education, rules segre
gation in public
schools unconstitu
tional.
• October 31
King is installed as
pastor of Dexter
Avenue Church in
Montgomery,
Alabama.
1955
• June 5
King receives doctoral
degree in Systematic
Theology from Boston
University.
• December 1
In Montgomery, Rosa
Parks refuses to relin
quish her bus seat to a
white man and is
arrested. This incident
touches off a massive
bus boycott, led by
King as president of
the Montgomery
Improvement
Association.
1956
• February 21
After suffering other
legal harassments and
personal threats. King
is indicted in the boy
cott on charges of con
spiracy against a busi
ness without “just or
legal cause.”
• November 13 The
Supreme Court
upholds a lower court
decision declaring
unconstitutional
Alabama’s laws requir
ing segregation on
buses.
• December 21
Montgomery buses are
integrated.
1957
• February
The Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) is
founded. King is elect
ed president, and
shortly thereafter
Time Magazine puts
him on its cover.
• September
President Dwight
Eisenhower federal
izes the Arkansas
National Guard to
escort nine black stu
dents to an all-white
high school in Little
Rock. The first civil
rights act since
Reconstruction is
passed by Congress.
1958
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