Official living memorial to #MLK, founded by #CorettaScottKing to educate on nonviolent social change and create the #BelovedCommunity.
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History – MLK married CSK
June 18, 1953
History – MLK launched Summer Community Organization & Political Education Project
June 20, 1965
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History – CSK announced the incorporation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center in Atlanta (later renamed The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change)
June 26, 1965
History – Alberta Wiliams King (mother of MLK) was shot and killed while playing the organ at Ebenezer Baptist Church
June 30, 1974
History – MLK & CSK spend belated honeymoon in Mexico
July 01, 1958
History – Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
July 02, 1964
History – The US House of Representatives passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by 333 to 85 votes
July 09, 1965
History – Alfred Daniel King (MLK’s only brother, known as AD) was found drowned in his own pool in Atlanta.
July 21, 1969
History – Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
August 06, 1965
History – The Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy opened up in Atlanta
August 12, 2007
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History – Official opening of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
August 22, 2011
History – The King Center, under the leadership of CSK, spearheads the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington
August 27, 1983
History – The Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission is established and signed into law
August 27, 1984
History – The March on Washington & MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech
August 28, 1963
History – MLK became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL.
September 02, 1954
History – Willie Christine Farris was born in Atlanta
September 11, 1927
History – Alberta William King was born
September 13, 1904
History – 16th Street Baptist Bombing in Birmingham, AL
September 15, 1963
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History – MLK is stabbed by a woman during his first book signing “Stride Toward Freedom” in Harlem, NY.
September 19, 1958