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The life of Martin Luther King Jr..
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King married Coretta Scott
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On December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. The police were called and she was arrested. This event led to a revolt all over America.
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In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.
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Because of a boycott by King, the US Supreme Court declared in unconstitutional to have laws requiring segregation on the bus. Everyone could now ride as equals.
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In 1957 Dr. King helped establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and he became its president.
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In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.
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Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic l
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On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King and other leaders led a march into Washington D.C. Over 200,000 people marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.
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Augustine and Selma
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Most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
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In 1971, King was posthumously awarded the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam. Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by Jimmy Carter.
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In 1986 when Ronald Reagan was president, Congress passed a law establishing a national holiday, Martin Luther King Day
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His widow Coretta Scott King passed away January 30, 2006.
