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King and the Boy Boycott
King created a boy boycott after the rosa parks insident. He wanted the 'whites' and the blacks to be able to set in the same bus without violence or discrimination occuring.This group ended in 1956 when they were allowed to seat in the same buses. -
Martin Luther King and the SCLC
Martin Luther King formed an oraganisation named the Southern Christain Leadership Conference [SCLC] to gain civil rights and to help his fight segregation. He also talks to 15000 people in SCLC in Washington. -
'I have a dream' speech
His speech,I have a dream. It was about his vision that one day all the people will be equal. That they will be treated equal and to be seen as equal. In his speech it says ' one day the sons of slaves and the sons of slave owners will stand together as brothers.It was his most successful and famous speech .It was delivered on August 28th on the step of Lincolon Memorail. Durring this is a march in Washington. It is the largest civil rights demonstration in history with 250 000 people attending -
King on the cover of Time Magazine
Martin Luther King Jr appears on the Time Magazine and is named 'man of the year'.In this magazine they wrote about how and why Kng did he make the Bus Boycott in Mantamery.He had been nubered Times' 100th person of the 20th century. He was also on the cover four times. -
king awarded the nobal peace prize
Martin Luther King was awarded the nobal peace prize because he showed everyone that victory can happen without the face of voilence. He was the youngest person to get this prize at age 35. -
The violence happening in when King leads a march
On March 28th king leads a march and for the first time it turned into chos and violence over the blacks and the whites. On this day he also deliveres his speech 'I've been to Mountaintop '.
