Martin

Martin Luther King Jr

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    date of birth/death and events

  • He became involved in the first major civil rights in Montgomery,Alabama,where buses where racially segregated

  • He took the Noble Peace Prize

  • Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) announced plans for the Chicago Freedom Movement, a campaign that marked the expansion of their civil rights activities from the South to northern cities.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks out against the war