Martin Luther King, Jr.A timeline of his life

Directions: The slides contain important events in the life of Dr. King, but they are not in order. Use the Slide Sorter to click and drag the slides so that they are in the correct order. Save your work when you are done. Timeline available at: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs216.html

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March on Washington

Morehouse College

He was born

He got marriedMontgomery bus boycott

Hotel in Memphis

Dr. King made his famous “I have a dream” speech in Washington DC. The March on Washington

took place in August, 1963.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed outside a motel room in

Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

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In 1953 he married Coretta Scott in Boston, Massachusetts.

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In 1955 Dr. King joined the Montgomery bus boycott. The

boycott started after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up

her seat on a bus.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in

Atlanta Georgia.

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He graduated from Morehouse College and became a Baptist

minister in 1944.

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