Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister who led the Montgomery bus boycott and the SCLC, and was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
PersonAlso known as Martin Luther King, Dr. King, MLK
15 Jan 1929 – 4 Apr 1968
- Identifiers
- Wikidata Q8027
Sources
Appears in22 items
- Jazz1 item
- The Civil Rights Movement20 items
- Montgomery bus boycott5 Dec 1955
- King’s house is bombed30 Jan 1956
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded10 Jan 1957
- The Albany Movement17 Nov 1961
- Birmingham campaign3 Apr 1963
- Letter from Birmingham Jail · author16 Apr 1963
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom28 Aug 1963, 15:30
- King: “I have a dream” · speaker28 Aug 1963, 19:00
- The march leaders meet Kennedy28 Aug 1963, 21:00
- King receives the Nobel Peace Prize10 Dec 1964
- Selma voting rights campaign2 Jan 1965
- Turnaround Tuesday; James Reeb is beaten9 Mar 1965
- The march from Selma to Montgomery21 Mar 1965
- The Voting Rights Act is signed6 Aug 1965
- The Chicago Freedom Movement26 Jan 1966
- The March Against Fear5 Jun 1966
- King is stoned in Marquette Park5 Aug 1966
- Memphis sanitation strike12 Feb 1968
- “I’ve been to the mountaintop”3 Apr 1968
- Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated · victim4 Apr 1968
- The Vietnam War1 item
