Martin luther king personal life
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The life of Martin Luther King Jr.
- = Key moments in MLK's life and beyond
- = Key moments in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond
- Jan. Michael Luther King Jr., later renamed Martin, is born to schoolteacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King in Atlanta, Ga.
- King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a B.A.
- Graduates with a B.D. from Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa.
- June King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They will have four children: Yolanda Denise (b), Martin Luther King III (b), Dexter (b), Bernice Albertine (b).
- Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.
- September: King moves to Montgomery, Ala., to preach at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
- After coursework at New England colleges, King finishes his Ph.D. in systematic theology.
- Bus boycott launches in Montgomery, Ala., after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arreste
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Meet the civil rights leader in our Martin Luther King facts and discover how he changed history for millions of African-American people during the Civil Rights Movement…
Martin Luther King facts
Full name: Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Born: 15 January
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Occupation: Minister and activist.
Died: 4 April
Best known for: Campaigning for the rights of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the s and s.1) Martin Luther King Jr was born in the United States of America to African American parents. At birth he was named Michael King, but his father later changed his name to Martin Luther King Jr.
2) When Martin Luther King was growing up, life was hard for African Americans. The Southern United States operated under the ‘Jim Crow laws’ that kept black and white people separated in what was called ‘segregation’. Black people had different schools, toilets and even sect
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The other woman in King’s life
JUST MOMENTS after the news of Coretta Scott King’s death, the first inquiring e-mail arrived: How long would it be before the woman some King scholars have for years privately thought of as “the other wife” either stepped forward or was identified by some unprincipled news outlet?
Her story is not exactly secret; it’s one that was known to dozens if not hundreds of people even before Martin Luther King Jr.’s tragic assassination on April 4, A number of biographers and historians (myself included) have met and interviewed her, and several have made reference to her. But although she was his most important emotional companion during the last fem years of his life, her identity has remained hidden for even längre than that of Watergate’s “Deep Throat.”
None of King’s surviving intimates or the handful of historians who know parts of this wonderful woman’s intensely anställda saga will knowingly aid or abet a mass media invasion of her privacy. If she