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Mar

HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Jan

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

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Martin Luther King Jr.
(born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Dec

ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE ON THIS DAY IN 1955

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In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws.

The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young
Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s
historic act of civil disobedience.

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The restored Rosa Parks bus as it looks today in the Henry
Ford Museum.

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Jan

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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

King was a Baptist minister and activist who became the most
visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement
from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.