Life History of Martin Luther King

Life History of Martin Luther King Related Important Events ⚡

Date of Event	Event / Incident
27 July 1962	Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the African-American civil rights struggle, is lodged in the Albany prison in Georgia.
16 April 1963	Martin Luther King, Junior wrote his letter from Birmingham Jailin in response to an open letter written by a white pastor four days ago.
14 October 1964	, Martin Luther King, Junior, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non -violent conflict against racial discrimination in the US.
14 October 1964	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded at the age of just 35 to run a non-violent movement against apartheid in American society. Born in the US state of Georgia, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
28 March 1965	Doctor Martin Luther King marched with 25,000 people to the rights of black Americans in Mottgumery, the capital of Alabama.
10 July 1966	Martin Luther King, Junior led a rally in support of the Chicago freedom movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights of North America.
19 June 1968	50,000 people demonstrated for economic justice under the leadership of Martin Luther King.
04 April 1968	American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Junior Memphis, Tennessee was murdered.
05 March 1968	Martin Luther King was killed.
08 January 1968	Martin Luther King, the leader of the Blacks' struggle in America, was shot dead by unknown invaders, leading to his death.
28 May 1968	The second Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding to be given posthumously to Reverend Martin Luther King. The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an International Award by the Government of India in honor of the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
11 July 1977	Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Medal of Freedom.
11 July 1977	Martin Luther King Jr. was posthumously awarded the President's Medal. He was a great humanist and worker. He was the best for non-sensitive civil disobedience movements in the US against racism. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the USA.
21 January 1986	It was the first federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.