Martin Luther King Jr.

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Civil rights activist
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45 Moments
1958
1957
At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., King delivers his first national address, “Give Us The Ballot,” at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom.
1956
King welcomed by wife after court
1955
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed. King becomes its president.
Yolanda Denise King, the Kings’ first child, is born.
1953
King and Coretta Scott are married at the Scott home near Marion, Alabama.
1948
King begins his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
1947
1931
Michael King Sr. becomes Senior Pastor
1929
Birth of Michael King Jr.