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Important dates in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 Born in Adanta,
Georgia on January 15 to
Alberta Williams King and
Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.
1935-1944 Dr. King
attended and finished his early
education at David T
Howard Elementary School
and Atlanta University Labo
ratory School. He attended
Booker T. Washington High
School and left before gradua
tion due to his acceptance and
early admission in Adantas
Morehouse College program
for advanced placement In the
Fall of 1944. He was 15 years
of age.
1942 James Farmer organ
ized C.O.R.E. (The Congress
of Racial Equality), Spring,
1942.
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1943 The first lunch count
er sit-ins took place in Chica
go, Illinois at Jack Spratt’s
Coffee Shop, May 14, 1943.
1945 The Japanese surren
dered on September 2, 1945,
ending World War 11. Ebony
magazine published its first
issue on November 1, 1945.
1946 The U.S. Supreme
Court banned segregation in
interstate bus travel on June 3,
1946. Race riots occurred in
Athens, Alabama on Aug 10
and in Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania on September 29, 1946.
The National Committee on
Civil Rights was created by
President Harry Truman to
investigate racism in America,
December 5, 1946.
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state bus travel in the segregat
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ie Robinson became the first
African American to play
major ‘league baseball as a
third baseman for the Brook
lyn Dodgers club, April 15,
1947. Dr. King decided to
become a minister and deliv
ered his first prepared sermon
in his father’s church, Ebenez
er Baptist Church in Adanta,
at age 18 in the Summer of
1947. President Truman’s
Committee on Civil Rights
condemned racial injustices
towards blacks in America. A
report was issued on October
29, 1947, entided 70 Secure
These Rights.
1948 A. Philip Randolph
pointed the way for nonvio
lent protest to segregation in
the U.S. Armed Forces,
March 31, 1948.
Dr. King was ordained as a
Baptist minister and received
his B.A. degree in Sociology
from Morehouse College in
June at the age of 19. In Sep
tember he entered Crozer
Theological Seminary in
Chester, Pennsylvania.
Inspired by the preachings of
Dr. AJ. Muste and Dr.
Mordecai Johnson on the life
and teachings of Mahatma
Gandhi, Dr. King was moved
to study intensely Gandhi’s
writings and movement while
still a student at Crozer Theo
logical Seminary, September
1948 - June 1951.
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ington, D.C. in 1963
1949 William L. Dawson,
Democratic Congressman
from Illinois, became the first
black to head a standing com
mittee in Congress as Chair
person of the House Expendi
tures Committee, January 18,
1949. Judge William H.
Hastie was named Judge of
US. Circiit Court of
Appeals, October 15, 1949.
1950 Dr. Charles Drew, the
father of the blood bank, died
April 1, 1950. Dr. Carter G.
Woodson, the father of black
history, died April 3, 1950.
Gwendolyn Brooks was
awarded a Pulizer Prize for
her poetry, May 1, 1950. Dr.
Ralph ]. Bunche received the
Nobel Peace Prize for his
mediations in the Palestine
dispute. He became the first
Black to receive a Nobel cita
tion, September 22, 1950.
1951 Dr. King graduated
from Crozer Theological
Seminary with his B.D.
degree at age 22 in June,
1951. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche
was appointed Undersecretary
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highest ranking American in
the U.N. Secretariat, Decem
ber 25, 1951,
1953 Dr. King married
Coretta Scott, June 18, 1953.
The first bus boycott started
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in
this year on June 19, 1953.
Riots erupted in Chicago at
Thrumbull Park Housing
project site on August 4,
1953.
1954 On May 17, 1954,
the U.S Supreme Court, in a
landmark decision, ruled
unanimously in Brown vs
Board of Education that racial
segregation in the publik
schools of America was
unconstitutional.
Mary Church Terrell, out
standing black civil rights
activist, died on July 24,
1954. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
became first black general in
the U.S. Air Force, October
27, 1954.
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of Dexter Avenue Church in
Montgomery, Alabama on
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October 31, 1954.
1955 Marion Anderson
became the first black to sing
at the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York City, Jan
uary 7, 1955. Roy Wilkins
became the executive director
of the NAACP on April 11,
1955, succeeding Walter
White, who died on March
21, 1995,
Mary McLeod Bethune,
educator and civil rights
leader, died on May 18, 1955.
The U.S. Supreme Court
ordered desegregation of the
public schools “with all delib
erate speed” on May 31,
1955. This order implement
ed the May 17, 1954 decision.
Dr. King received his Ph.D
in Systematic Theology from
Boston University on June 5,
1955.
Emmert Till, age 14, was
lynched and brutally defaced
in Money, Mississippi on
August 28,
Dr. Kings first child was
born - Yolanada Denise (born
in Montgomery, Alabama,
November 17, 1955).
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