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All rights reserved. Captured on television, the brutal scene outraged many Americans and inspired supporters from across the country to gather in Alabama and take part in the Selma to Montgomery march led by King and supported by President Lyndon B. The civil rights leader was attacked in by Izola Ware Curry, a decade before his murder.

You can opt out at any time. King was a powerful speaker, delivering many speeches to inspire others to join the movement. In King and his family moved to Atlanta, his native city, where he joined his father as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Find a more detailed MLK timeline here. Grades: Elementary School. In , a court in Atlanta sentenced him to four months of hard labor.

He was considered to be a good student, but rebelled against what he thought was the more conservative religious attitude of his father. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott. He later recanted his confession and gained some unlikely advocates, including members of the King family, before his death in King made the decision to extend the protests to include the Vietnam War. The unpopular and politically motivated war was taking American lives and many across the country was in opposition to it.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. Police arrested James Earl Ray, who was sentenced to a year term in prison for the crime. More than , civil rights supporters were in the audience as he spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. James Earl Ray , an escaped convict and known racist, pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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As more militant Black leaders such as Stokely Carmichael rose to prominence, King broadened the scope of his activism to address issues such as the Vietnam War and poverty among Americans of all races. Board of Education decision of While serving at a church in Alabama, King Jr. Learn more: Martin Luther King Jr. King gave his most famous speech during the March on Washington.

Held on August 28 and attended by some , to , participants, the event is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American civil rights movement and a factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of The King family had been living in Montgomery for less than a year when the highly segregated city became the epicenter of the burgeoning struggle for civil rights in America, galvanized by the landmark Brown v.

Tensions were mounting in cities and towns across the country and it became obvious that change in discrimination had to occur. King after her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.