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Coretta Scott meets the King family. King enrolls in classes for first term of second year at Boston University. Any number of historic moments in the civil-rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. But in retrospect, single events are less important than the fact that King, and his policy of nonviolent protest, was the dominant force in the civil-rights movement during its decade of greatest achievement, from to He was renamed "Martin" when he was about 6 years old.
After going to local grammar and high schools, King enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta in He wasn't planning to enter the ministry, but then he met Dr. Benjamin Mays, a scholar whose manner and bearing convinced him that a religious career could be intellectually satisfying as well. Lewis Crozer Fellowship as well. King completed the coursework for his doctorate in , and was granted the degree two years later upon completion of his dissertation.
There, he made his first mark on the civil-rights movement, by mobilizing the black community during a day boycott of the city's bus lines. King overcame arrest and other violent harassment, including the bombing of his home.
Ultimately, the U. Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. A national hero and a civil-rights figure of growing importance, King summoned together a number of black leaders in and laid the groundwork for the organization now known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC. King was elected its president, and he soon began helping other communities organize their own protests against discrimination.
After finishing his first book and making a trip to India, King returned to the United States in to become co-pastor, with his father, of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, during a mass protest for fair hiring practices and the desegregation of department-store facilities. Police brutality used against the marchers dramatized the plight of blacks to the nation at large, with enormous impact.
King was arrested, but his voice was not silenced: He wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to refute his critics. Later that year King was a principal speaker at the historic March on Washington, where he delivered one of the most passionate addresses of his career. Time magazine designated him as its Person of the Year for A few months later he was named recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. When he returned from Norway, where he had gone to accept the award , King took on new challenges.
In Selma, Ala. King next brought his crusade to Chicago, where he launched programs to rehabilitate the slums and provide housing. In the North, however, King soon discovered that young and angry blacks cared little for his preaching and even less for his pleas for peaceful protest.
Their disenchantment was one of the reasons he rallied behind a new cause: the war in Vietnam. Although he was trying to create a new coalition based on equal support for peace and civil rights, it caused an immediate rift. But from the vantage point of history, King's timing was superb. Students, professors, intellectuals, clergymen and reformers rushed into the movement. Then, King turned his attention to the domestic issue that he felt was directly related to the Vietnam struggle: poverty.
He called for a guaranteed family income, he threatened national boycotts, and he spoke of disrupting entire cities by nonviolent "camp-ins. King interrupted these plans to lend his support to the Memphis sanitation men's strike. He wanted to discourage violence, and he wanted to focus national attention on the plight of the poor, unorganized workers of the city.
The men were bargaining for basic union representation and long-overdue raises. But he never got back to his poverty plans. While standing outside with Jesse Jackson and Ralph Abernathy, King was shot in the neck by a rifle bullet.
His death caused a wave of violence in major cities across the country. Eisenhower, along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Grange on problems affecting black Americans. Resigns as pastor from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to concentrate on civil rights full time. Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, North Carolina. In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is released.
Supreme Court outlawed segregation in interstate transportation. On April 13, the Birmingham campaign is launched. This would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South. On May 10, the Birmingham Agreement is announced. The stores, restaurants, and schools will be desegregated, hiring of blacks implemented, and charges dropped. August 28, the March on Washington becomes the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly , people in attendance and King makes his famous I Have a Dream speech.
On November 22, President Kennedy is assassinated. During the summer, King experiences his first hurtful rejection by black people when he is stoned by Black Muslims in Harlem. King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December King is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at age On July 10, King initiates a campaign to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schools in Chicago.
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