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Tuesday, January 16, 2001 A Publication of the Newspeak Association Volume No. 66, Issue 1
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-Worcester Project Center begins work
-President Parrish petitions president
-Police chase one of their own cars through Worcester
-An "Improved" Kaven Hall

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-Research raises questions about common cosmetic ingredient
-Marketers may be first to benefit from media merger
-Teens pierce cloudy world of Alzheimer’s patients
-Cloned ox, from endangered species, dies of disease shortly after

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-The Mission of BiLaGA

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-International Students on MLK, Jr: Who was he?
-The Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.
-MLK Day has become key day for politicians

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The Times of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1929Michael Luther King, Jr., later renamed Martin, born to school teacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King in Atlanta, Georgia.
1948King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia with BA.
Graduates with a B. D. from Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Penn- sylvania.
1953King marries Coretta Scott King in Marion, Alabama. They have 4 children: Yolanda Denise (b.1955), Martin Luther King III (b. 1957), Dexter (b. 1961), Bernice Albertine (b 1963).King moves to Montgomery, Alabama, to preach at Dexter Baptist Avenue Church.
1954King receives in Ph. D. in systematic theology after coursework at New England colleges.
1955King is arrested for driving 30 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone. King's houseis bombed.
1957Black ministers form what became known as the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference (SCLC). King is named first president one month later.
1956King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom (Harper), is published. Whilepromoting his book in Harlem bookstore, an African Ameican woman stabs him.
1959King visits India. He had a lifelong admiration for Mohandas K. Gandhi, and credited Gandhi's passive resistance techniques for his civil-rights successes.
1960King leaves for Atlanta to pastor his father's church, Ebenezer BaptistChurch.
1961King meets with President John Kennedy to urge support for civil rights.
1963King leads protest in Birmingham for desegregated department store facilities, and fair hiring. Arrested after demonstrating in defiance of a court order, King writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which became a clas sic of the civil-rights movement
August 28, approximately 250,000 civil-rights supporters attended March on Washington. At the Lincoln Memorial, King delivers famous "I have a dream" speech.
1964King's book, Why We Can't Wait, is published.
King visits with West Berlin Mayor Willy Brnt and People Paul VI.
1965Selma to Montogmery, Alabama march. King continues to protest discrimination in voter registration, is arrested and jailed. Meets with President Lyndon Johnson and other American leaders about voting rights for African Americans.
1968April 4. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray.
1986January 20 is the first national celebration of King's birthday as a holiday.
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