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January 15, 1929
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MLK Was born on this date and there begins the timeline
July 30, 1930
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His brother named Alfred Daniel was born
January, 1932
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MLK begins nursery school
1948
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Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree
1953 - 1955
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With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955.
1954
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Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation.
December, 1955
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He was ready to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States
1957
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he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.
1963
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he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
April 4, 1968
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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. which then ends the timeline