June
Meredith March Against Fear: King marches with Juanita Abernathy, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael, and others.
Bob Fitch, Bob Fitch Photography Archive, © Stanford University Libraries.
Welcome to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia!
The Encyclopedia, based on the extensive historical research originally conducted for The Papers, has over articles on civil rights movement figures, events, and organizations. It also offers a detailed day-to-day chronology of King's life, drawn from the volumes.
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
At P.M. on Thursday, 4 April , Martin Luther King was shot dead. During King’s funeral a tape recording was played in which King spoke of how he wanted to be remembered after his death: “I’d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others” (King, “Drum Major Instinct,” 85).
King Encyclopedia
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Martin Luther King – Biography
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, April 4, ) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from to ; his father has served from then until the present, and from until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in and receiving the degree in In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
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Major King Events Chronology:
15 January
Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Summer
The King family — Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King), Alberta Williams King, Willie Christine King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Alfred Daniel Williams King (known as A. D. King) — moves from Auburn Avenue to Boulevard in Atlanta.
20 September
King begins his freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
6 August
The Atlanta Constitution publishes King’s letter to the editor stating that black people “are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens.”
25 February
King is ordained and appointed assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
8 June
King receives his bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College.
14 September
King begins his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
May
King graduates from Crozer with a bachelor of divinity degree, delivering the valedictory address at commencement.
13 September
King begins his graduate studies in systematic the
Till, Emmett Louis
July 25, to August 28,
The abduction and murder of year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement. A month after the Till lynching, Martin Luther King stated that it “might be considered one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the twentieth century” (Papers ). Just three months after Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began. For most of his life, King would use the Till murder as an example of “the evil of racial injustice,” preaching about “the crying voice of a little Emmett Till, screaming from the rushing waters in [Mississippi]” (King, 12 May ).
Emmett Till was born in Chicago on 25 July At the age of 14, he was sent by his parents to visit relatives in LeFlore County, Mississippi. Till was reportedly dared by some local boys to enter Bryant’s Grocery and talk to the white woman behind the counter, who owned the store. According to William Bradford Huie, a journalist who later interviewed the accused, Till entered and touched Carol Bryant and whistled at her as his friends rushed him away. Four days later, on 28 August, he was abducted from his uncle’s home by
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