From protests to Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream", explore the Black struggle against segregation and injustice in this civil rights movement timeline.
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More details:Privacy Notice|Terms of Use|Contact Us More on this Topic | Vietnam War How Dith Pran’s Remarkable Survival Story Exposed Cambodia’s Killing Fields Dith Pran was a Cambodian photojournalist (and later, a U.S. citizen), who survived and then exposed atrocities under the Khmer ...
Jesse Jackson on MLK: One Bullet Couldn’t Kill the Movement Rev. Jackson, who was part of King’s inner circle in 1968—and witnessed his assassination—weighs in on that shocking moment, its turbulent aftermath and carrying forth the dream. ...
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr. born on January 15, in Atlanta, Georgia 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany 1947 Jackie Robinson is the first black man to play major league baseball 1954 Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court orders schools to dese...
Timeline of significant events related to Martin Luther King, Jr., who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregati
They met in Atlanta to begin the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, electing MLK Jr. as president to continue fighting nonviolently for civil rights. The romanticized Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond desegregating busses in the public system. King gained national attention as a ...
MLK An American activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He helped the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as his March on Washington and his "I have a Dream" Speech. He was assassinated on April...
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of 1964, but he also became the target of protesters' wrath for the quagmire in Vietnam, which expanded in the late '60s. In 1968, the U.S. mourned two more inspirational leaders who were assassinated: the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April and Robert F. Kennedy in June. ...