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Bus boycott
In 1955 Rosa Parks had a problem on the bus. she sat down in the front. she was forced to go sit in the back, she refused as much as she could. They finally called the police, she was arrested and taken to jail. She had a boycott, she asked Mr. Martin Luther King to lead with her. he agreed. Martin and Rosa gained alot of respect. -
SCLC
Martin Luther KIng found the southern christian leadership conference, in 1957. Serving as the first president in the program. -
What went wrong?
King had an unsuccesful struggle against segrigation in Albany, Georga, in 1962, and orginized nonviolant protests in BIRMINGTON, ALABAMA. that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police responce. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.! -
oct. 14 1964
Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. -
Final years
In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". -
KINGS Assassination
In 1968 King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. The jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King.
