| These are the facts about Martin Luther King Jr - | | | | case; Edgar Nixon and Clifford Durr chose to wait for |
| Seven major events that happened through his | | | | a better incident to pursue. On December 1, 1955, Rosa |
| incredible journey that turned a divided America into a | | | | Parks was placed under arrest for refusing to give up |
| united America! God bless the legacy this gentle lion | | | | her seat. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and |
| left for humanity. | | | | strategically planned by Nixon and led by King, soon |
| Always black, always bad, and always beautiful! | | | | followed. The boycott lingered on for 385 days, and |
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| 7. January 15, 1929 is the day that God brought Dr. | | | | was tragically bombed. King was placed under arrest |
| King into this world to fulfill a great destiny teaching | | | | during this challenging campaign, which finally came to |
| mankind to love one another, instead of hating each | | | | an end with a United States District Court ruling in |
| other. | | | | Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all |
| 6. Martin Luther King, Jr., was originally called "Michael | | | | Montgomery public buses. |
| King, Jr.," that is until the family visited Europe in the | | | | 2. Throughout his lengthy career of public service, King |
| year 1934 and travelled to Germany. His father quickly | | | | wrote and spoke often, drawing on his great |
| changed both of their birth names to Martin Luther in | | | | experience as a preacher. His "Letter from Birmingham |
| the highest honor of the German Protestant leader | | | | Jail", written in 1963, is a "passionate" statement of his |
| Martin Luther. | | | | fight for justice. On October 14, 1964, King became the |
| 5. King got married to Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, | | | | youngest recipient of the prestigious Nobel Peace |
| on the front lawn of her mom and dad's' house in her | | | | Prize, which was given to him for leading non-violent |
| childhood town of Heiberger, Alabama. King and Scott | | | | resistance to put an end to racial prejudice in the |
| bore four children together. | | | | United States. |
| 4. Civil rights leader, trusted theologian, and skilled | | | | 1. TRAGEDY-------> King was lodging in room 306 |
| educator Howard Thurman was a big early influence | | | | at the Lorraine Motel, owned by Walter Bailey, in |
| on dr. King. A classmate of King's dad at Morehouse | | | | Memphis. The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, King's close |
| College, Thurman mentored the young King and his | | | | pal and colleague who was present at the brutal |
| friends. Thurman's missionary work had taken him | | | | assassination, swore under oath to the United States |
| abroad where he had met and conferred with | | | | House Select Committee on Assassinations that King |
| Mahatma Gandhi. When he was a student at Boston | | | | and his entourage stayed at room 306 at the Lorraine |
| University, King often visited Thurman, who was the | | | | Motel so often it was known as the 'King-Abernathy |
| dean of Marsh Chapel. Walter Fluker, who has studied | | | | suite.'[106] King was shot at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968 while |
| Thurman's writings, has stated, "I don't believe you'd get | | | | he was standing on the motel's second floor balcony. |
| a Martin Luther King, Jr. without a Howard Thurman". | | | | The bullet entered through his right cheek smashing his |
| 3. In March 1955, a 15-year-old school girl, Claudette | | | | jaw and then traveled down his spinal cord before |
| Colvin, steadfastly refused to give up her bus seat to | | | | lodging in his shoulder.the facts about martin luther king |
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