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Tribute To Dr. King
1948
Graduates from More- house College and enters Crozer Theological Semi- nary.
Ordained to the Baptist ministry, February 25, 1948, at age 19.
Enters Boston University for graduate studies.
1953
Marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955
Received Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from Boston Uni- versity, Boston, Massachu- setts, on June 5, 1955. His Dissertation was entitled, “A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wiseman.”
1951
January 15, 1929
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born to Rev. and Mrs. Martin (formerly Michael) Luther King, (Alberta Williams) King, Sr., on at noon on January 15, 1929. Parents: The Reverend and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. He spent the first 12 years of his life in this home at 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.
1944
Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.
Dr. King with his wife and 4 children.
On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. She was arrested and booked into the Montgomery Jail. A meeting was held and the Negroes agreed to boycott the bus system. The boycott lasted for more than a year.
On December 10th, the Bus Company stopped services in the Negro neighborhoods.
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