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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He changed the world with the Civil Rights Movement. He is survived by his wife and three children.
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Join MemoriesKing is assassinated in Tennessee
Karen Higdon His first daughter Yolanda Denise King is born in Alabama
Karen Higdon Birth of Martin Luther King III, 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama
Karen Higdon King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
Karen Higdon King spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Karen Higdon Began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Ph.D. degree
Karen Higdon Went to Booker T. Washington High School from 1941 to 1944
Karen Higdon Second son Dexter Scott King is born in Montgomery, Alabama
Karen Higdon The SCLC's 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was the first time King addressed a national audience
Karen Higdon He published a short book called "The Measure of A Man"
Karen Higdon King awarded the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award
Karen Higdon Started studying B.Div. degree at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1951
Karen Higdon Married to Coretta Scott for 15 years from 1953 to 1968
King delivered a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" to a New York City church
Karen Higdon King joined the Chicago Open Housing Movement
Karen Higdon King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Karen Higdon Born 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia
Started studying sociology at Morehouse College from 1945 to 1948
Karen Higdon With assistance from the Quaker group the American Friends Service Committee, he was able to make the journey to India
Karen Higdon Birth of Bernice Albertine King, 1963 in Montgomery, Alabama
Karen Higdon King was nearly stabbed to death while signing copies of book Stride Toward Freedom in Blumstein's department store in Harlem
Karen Higdon King was involved in The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia