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Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Martin Luther King, Time line




Martin Luther King Time Line:

In 1929,
was born in Atlanta, Georgia, In the deep of the USA, where the segregation of
 black people and white people was a way of life.

In 1955,
 when a woman called Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to move to
the white woman on a bus and was arrested. Hence, that led to a far greater role for him in fighting racial injustice an became a leader of his people across the nation; his first step toward the racism issues in responding to that incident, he led a bus boycott in Montgomery which successfully led to a change in the law about the segregated setting.

In1963,
 Martin Luther King organised the largest rally when 200 000 people marched together through Washington, DC, calling for freedom rides where the particular racial problem located. And he named 'Time Magazine's Man' of the year.

In 1964,
 Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize.



In the 1950s -1960s,
 Martin Luther King was the leader of Civil Rights Movement against racism

In 1968,
 In the USA, was shot dead at the age of 39 by Janes Earl Ray, a white ex-convicted.

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