{"id":32469,"date":"2022-09-10T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/martin-luther-king-jr-s-life-ministry-by-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:47","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-s-life-ministry-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/martin-luther-king-jr-s-life-ministry-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s Life & Ministry by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April 4, 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and civil rights icon.<\/p>\n

His life, ministry, and death dramatically changed the trajectory of the United States.<\/p>\n

Numbers and dates can never tell the whole story, but they can give us a glimpse into the impact King made.<\/p>\n

1920s<\/strong><\/h3>\n

January 15, 1929<\/strong> \u2014 Martin Luther King Jr. was born with the legal name \u201cMichael King,\u201d the same name as his father.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. changed both of their names in 1934, as he said \u201cMichael\u201d was a mistake by the doctor overseeing the younger\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

1940s<\/strong><\/h3>\n

September 20, 1944<\/strong> \u2014 King enrolled in Morehouse College at the age of 15 after his junior year in high school.<\/p>\n

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February 25, 1948<\/strong> \u2014 King was ordained into the ministry at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

June 8, 1948<\/strong> \u2014 He graduated from Morehouse and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary to pursue \u201can inner urge to serve humanity\u201d as a minister.<\/p>\n

1950s<\/strong><\/h3>\n

May 8, 1951<\/strong> \u2014 At Crozer, he was valedictorian in 1951 and was elected student body president.<\/p>\n

September 13, 1951<\/strong> \u2014 He began graduate studies at Boston University\u2019s School of Theology.<\/p>\n

June 18, 1953<\/strong> \u2014 King married Coretta Scott on the lawn of her parents\u2019 home in Alabama. They had four children: Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice.<\/p>\n

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May 14, 1954<\/strong> \u2014 At the age of 25, King was called as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He began his duties on September 1.<\/p>\n

June 5, 1955<\/strong> \u2014 King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University.<\/p>\n

December 1, 1955<\/strong> \u2014 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person. King helped to organize and lead a bus boycott, which concluded with a district court ruling that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.<\/p>\n

January 30, 1956<\/strong> \u2014 Due to King\u2019s role in the bus boycott, his house was bombed while he was away speaking. His wife, daughter, and a church member were inside but were unharmed.<\/p>\n

January 10, 1957<\/strong> \u2014 After successfully ending the bus boycott, King and several other ministers and leaders founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to support nonviolent opposition to segregation.<\/p>\n

February 18, 1957<\/strong> \u2014 Time<\/em> magazine placed King on its cover.<\/p>\n

May 17, 1957<\/strong> \u2014 He delivered his first national address, \u201cGive Us the Ballot,\u201d at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

July 18, 1957<\/strong> \u2014 Billy Graham had King pray at his long-running New York City crusade in Madison Square Garden and the two began a complicated relationship.<\/p>\n

Graham introduced King by saying, \u201cA great social revolution is going on in the United States today. Dr. King is one of its leaders, and we appreciate his taking time out of his busy schedule to come and share this service with us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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November 1958<\/strong> \u2014 King inscribed a copy of his book Stride Toward Freedom <\/em>to theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, praising him as a theologian of \u201cgreat prophetic vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

1960s<\/strong><\/h3>\n

October 1960<\/strong> \u2014 On October 19, King was jailed for picketing a department store. He was released three days later and then jailed again on October 22 for driving with an Alabama license while being a resident of Georgia.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to four months of hard labor. Coretta was so worried about his safety, she reached out to friends and eventually heard from presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

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April 19, 1961<\/strong> \u2014 King spoke at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary\u2019s chapel and a seminary ethics class. You can listen to his address here.<\/p>\n

April 16, 1963<\/strong> \u2014 After being arrested for violating a court injunction against demonstrations, King wrote Letter From a Birmingham Jail<\/em>.<\/p>\n

August 28, 1963<\/strong> \u2014 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom featured King\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech at the Lincoln Memorial in front of more than 200,000 demonstrators.<\/p>\n

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September 18, 1963<\/strong> \u2014 King delivered the eulogy for three girls killed by a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

January 3, 1964<\/strong> \u2014 Time named him \u201cMan of the Year\u201d for 1963, the first African-American recipient of the honor.<\/p>\n

December 10, 1964<\/strong> \u2014 He won the Nobel Peace Prize for being, as the committee called him, \u201cthe first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

March 17-25, 1965<\/strong> \u2014 King led a peaceful march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery after voting rights marchers were beaten by Selma police.<\/p>\n

December 4, 1967<\/strong> \u2014 King discussed plans for a Poor People\u2019s Campaign, a civil disobedience protest in Washington, to highlight economic injustice.<\/p>\n

April 3, 1968<\/strong> \u2014 At the Mason Temple, headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, King delivered what would be his final speech: \u201cI\u2019ve Been to the Mountaintop.\u201d<\/p>\n

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April 4, 1968<\/strong> \u2014 King was assassinated by James Earl Ray at 6:01 p.m. on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.<\/p>\n

His last words were said to have been to musician Ben Branch: \u201cBen, make sure you play \u2018Take My Hand, Precious Lord\u2019 in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty.\u201d<\/p>\n

April 7, 1968<\/strong> \u2014 President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the day a national day of mourning for King.<\/p>\n

April 9, 1968<\/strong> \u2014 Two funeral services were held in Atlanta\u2014one for family and close friends and a following one for the public. \u201cTake My Hand, Precious Lord\u201d was sung at the funeral.<\/p>\n

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