April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman, activist and leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. King was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1948. He then earned a Bachelor […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. – April 4th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on April 4, 2011 in African American History, April, Author, Civil Rights
Tags: April 4, Boston University, Congressional Gold Medal, January 15, January 17, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Morehouse College, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Spingarn Medal
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