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Martin Luther King Jr was born
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Graduated from Booker T. Washington high school and went to Morehouse College at 15
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Ordained to be a minister at 19.
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Enters graduate school
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Marries Coretta Scott
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Became official spokesman for the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery
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Dr. King speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington, DC.
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Dr. King met with Dwight D. Eisenhower
to discuss problems African Americans were having -
Moves to Atlanta to focus on the civil rights movement
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Dr. King is arrested while sitting in a restaurant
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Supreme Court bans segregation in interstate travel
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Dr. King is arrested and writes the "Letter to the Birmingham Jail"
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March on Washington and Dr. King gives his "I have a dream" speech
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Dr. King is on the cover of Time's magazine
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Dr. King attends the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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President Johnson signs voting rights act
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King begins to march
For working conditions, living conditions and equality -
Dr. King is shot on a balcony in Tennessee
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Dr. King's funeral
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A national holiday is proclaimed in Dr. King's Honor
