Timeline

                          

                                                

Name: 

    Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
               

What he is famous for:

   He was the most important leader of the American civil rights movement.

   
1929         Born in Atlanta.


1959             Visited India to study Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.


1962             During the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement,
                     King is arrested on July 27 and jailed.


1963             Organized the famous Million Man.
                     Greatest speech "I Have a Dream"


1964             Congress passed Civil Right Laws.


1965             Voting  right Laws.


1966              In June, King and others begin the March Against Fear through the South.
         

1968             Was assassinated on April 4.