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Graduates College.
Graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary. -
Gets Married.
Marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Bus Segregation Ends!
Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott -
Book is published.
King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published. -
King is arrested.
During the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement, King is arrested and jailed. -
The Birmingham campaign is launched.
This would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South.
