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Get tough
Mlk is arrested as part of a Get Tough campaign to scare the bus boycotters -
Southern christian leadership
Mlk forms the Christian Leadership Conference to beat segregation and get civil rights. Mlk speaks to a crowd of fifteen thousand at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom to make civil rights bigger -
JFK helps MLK
MLK is arrested while waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail but after intervention by the presidential candidate John Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy MLK is released. -
Transportation
Supreme Court outlawed segregation in interstate transportation -
Back in
MLK is tried and convicted on July 10 for leading the march the previous December -
Praying and getting arrested
He is arrested again on July 27 and jailed for holding a prayer vigil in Albany -
White house
he meets with President Kennedy at the White House -
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Fighting segrigation
April 3, the Birmingham campaign is officially launched. April 12, Police Commissioner Eugene Connor arrests MLK and Ralph Abernathy for demonstrating without a permit. April 19, MLK and Abernathy are released on bondDuring May 2-7, Birmingham police use fire hoses and dogs against the Children’s Crusade. More than one thousand demonstrators, mostly high school students, are jailed. -
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I have a dream
June 11, President Kennedy announces new civil rights legislation. Kennedy is the first U.S. president to say publicly that segregation is legally and morally wrong. On June 23, August 28 is the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 marchers. march for jobs. The demonstrators demand an end to state-supported segregation and equal job opportunities. At the march, MLK makes his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech. September 22. President Kennedy is assassinated -
Nobel peace prize
MLK becomes the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Death of King
April 4 Martin luther king jr is shot and dies the world is shocked after a very important man dies.
