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Martin Luther King (Jr.) was born
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Graduating
he graduated from Morehouse with a B.A. degree in sociology -
King's Marriage
King married Coretta Scott, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama. -
doctoral degree
King began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Ph.D. degree -
declaring unconstitutional laws requiring segregation on buses
after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. -
King won the Nobel Peace Prize
King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence -
Martin Luther King was killed
King was assassinated
