FACTS ABOUT KING .'laimi l-uuici rving jr is bom to the Rev. and Mrs. Manm-Luther King Sr. at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta. 1935.1%U- King attends David T Howard Elementary School, Atlanta University Laboratory School-, Booker T. Washington High School and enters Morehouse at age 15. 194/ - 18-year.-old King is licensed to preach and becomes assistant to his father, pastor of Ebene^er Baptist Church in Atlanta. 1948 ? February - King is ordainedto the Baptist ministry'. 1948 ? June ? King graduates from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in sociology. /? ? , 1948 ? September-K ing enters Crozer theological Seminary in Chester. Pennsylvania. Here he begins a serious study of the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. 1953- Marries Coretta Scott in Marion. Alabama. T954 - May The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously in Brown vs. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional <$ 1954 ? October - Rev. King is installed as the 20th pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery , Alabama 1955 -*June ? King earns a Ph. D. degree in sys tematic theology from Boston University. 1955 - December - Mrs. Rosa Parks is arrested because she refuses to give her bus seat to a white man. The bus boycott starts on December 5th and King is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. 1956 - January * King is arrested in Montgomery and released on his own recognizance. A bomb is thrown onto the porch of the King home. 1956 ? February ? Kings is indicted with other protesters on the charge of being part of a conspiracy to prevent the operation of business without "just or legal cause." 1956 -June - A United States district court rules that racial segregation on city bus lines is unconstitu tional. 1956 - October ? The mayor of Montgomery instructs the 'city counsel "to file such proceedings as it may deem proper to stop the operation of car pools and transportation systems growing out of the boy cott." 1956 - November - United States Supreme Court uph olds deVTgtWMtyf district court in declaring Alabama's segregation on buses laws unconstitution _aj_ 1 ' ? 1956 - December - Federal injunctions prohibit ing segregation on buses are served on city and bus Company officials and state officials. On the 21st Montgomery bus'es are integrated. 1957 - February - Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is founded. Dr. King is elected its first piesident. King appears on the cover of Time magazine. 1957 - May - King- delivers "Give Us the Ballot" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. D C. on the third anniversary of the Brown decision. 1957 - September - President Eisenhower feder alizes the Arkansas National Guard to escort njne Negro students to an all-white high school in Little Rock. The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed, creating the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Riphts Division of the-4*i speak 40 to 60 days in Parchman Penitentiary 1961 ? December ? Dr King arrives in Albany. Georgia in response to a cafll from the leader of the Alban> Movement to desegregate public facilities. King is arrested at a demonstration. j 1962 ? February ? King is tried and convicted for leading a march in Albany. # 1962 - May -King is invited to. join the Birmingham protests. 1962 ? July ? King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil. 1962 - September James Meredith makes first attempt t? enroll at the University of Mississippi. He is enrolled by order of the Supreme Court and escorted onto the campus by U.S.*marshals on October 1st. * 1963 - March ? Sit-in demonstrations are held in HBiimiMgliam. Dr. King !s arrested. 1963 ? April - King writes the "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 1963 ? May - U.S. Supreme court rules Birmingham's segregation ordinances are unconstitu tional. c . ? 1963- June King s-book Strength to Love is ^published.. . _ . _ 1963 ? August ? The March on Washington is held. Dr. King delivers his "I H^ve a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 1964 - May - King joins other SCLC workers in demonstrations for the integration of public acconjimo dations and is arrested. 1964 ? June - King's Book W'hy We Can't Wait is published ?# 1964 - July ? King attends the signing of the Public Accommodations Bill, part of the Civil Rights 1964 - Jul) -August ? Riots jxjgpf in Harlem. New Jersey. Illinois and Pennsylvania! r 1964 ? September - Dr. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy visit West Berlin at the invitation of Mayor jK illy Brandt. King has an aud^jice with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. # ? ' ' 1964 - December ? King receives the Nobel Peac^Trize in Oslo. Norway. 1965 ? March ? Over J. 000. marchers leave . Selma. Ala., for a march to Montgomery where they hear an address by Dr. King. - 1965 - A ugust_jL The_i 965 Voting Rights Act is signed by President Johnson. 1966- March- U.S. Supreme court rules poll tax unconstitutional. 1966 ? Spring? King tours Alabama to help elect black candidates. ( For fTrsT time since Reconstruction a number of blacks vote in the Alabama primary, 1966 - May - A King antiwar statements is read at a Washington rally to protest the war in Vietnam. King agrees to serve as co-chairman of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam. 1966 - July - King Launches a drive to make Chicago an " open city" in regard to housing. 1966 ? August -King is stoned in Chicago while leading a march through crowds of angry whites. 1966 ? September ? SCLC launches a project to integrate the public schools of Grenada. Mississippi and initiates, the Alabama Citizen Education Project in Wilcox County. 1967 ? January - King writes^Where Do We Go From Here? 1967 - March - The desegregation of public schools is ordered in Alabama. Dr. King attacks U.S. policy in Vietnam in Chicago speech. 1967 - April ~ King makes "Beyond Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church in New York City. 1967 - July - Riots in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan. Dr. King and other prominent black leaders call for an end to the riots. 1967 - October ? Supreme Court upholds the contempt of court convictions of Dr. King and other black leaders who led the 1963 marches frr Birmingham. Alabama. 1967 - November - King announces the forma tion of a Poor People's Campaign by SCLC to address the problems of the poor- black and white. 1968 - March - King leads 6.000 protesters on a march through downtown Memphis is support of striking sanitation workers. 1968 ? April - King delivers his last speech "I've Been to the Mountain Top." at the Memphis Masonic Temple. On the 4th. Dr. King is assassinated. He dies in St. Joseph's Hospital. Af. "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow - confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ? - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. P.O. Box 3154 Winston-Salem, NC 27102 722-8624 ? 724-6912 9 \ J "If any of you are around when I have met my day . . . I'd tike someone to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. triecTfo give his life - serving others . I'd like for somebody to say that _ Martin Luther King , ./r. ? tried to love somebody " M&F MK( :HA\ICS ANl ) FARMERS BANK H&h here frjryou. 770 Martin Luther King Blvd. Winston-Salem ? 722-0200