“I believe unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word……”
1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA
1948: Graduates from Morehouse College
1954: Marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Georgia.
Dr. King
1955: Begins ministering at the Dexter Avenue Church, Montgomery, Alabama.
1956: District court rules bus segregation is unconstitutional.
1957: Civil Rights Commission is created by the federal government.
1958: King’s book, “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story” is published.
King is ordained at the age of 19, receives his Ph.D. degree in 1955.
Dr. King was arrested numerous times during Civil Rights Movement.
Received 20 honorary doctorate degrees.
A Friend to all.
1964: Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Coretta marching by his side……
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Makes an impact.
ROSA PARKS, a woman of courage.
Freedom March… Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
Dr. King is fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee
Coretta and children …….Mourn
April 19, 1968 Dr. King’s funeral is an international event.
November 2, 1986 President Reagan declares a national holiday in King’s honor.
Equal rights for all…
Tolerance…
Non- violence…
Faith….
Too many die for the cause of Civil Rights.
Peace….
Equality for all….
Allow us to eat at your table….
The King family
Persistence will prevail…..
Thousands march in Detroit….
Dr. King’s final freedom march…
Free At Last….
August 28, 1963 March on Washington “I Have a Dream”
Desegregation of Little Rock High School
“I have a dream
that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character."
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia,
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
“Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!”
“Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!”
“Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!”
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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