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Martin Luther King Jr. was born
in Atlanta, Georgia -
MLK began college
at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia -
MLK began being an assistant pastor
at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia -
MLK gets married to Coretta Scott
at the Scott home near Marion, Alabama -
MLK moves from Montgomery to Atlanta
he becomes the assistant pastor to his father -
King is arrested in Albany, Georgia
he spent two weeks in jail -
MLK receives the Nobel Peace Prize
every penny of the $54,000 award will be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle. -
MLK is shot and killed
while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee