{"slug": "martin-luther-king-jr", "label": "Martin Luther King Jr.", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8027", "qid": "Q8027", "description": "American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)", "entries": 11, "years": 9, "span": [1927, 2006], "span_label": ["1927 CE", "2006 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "nobel-peace-prize", "label": "Nobel Peace Prize", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vietnam-war", "label": "Vietnam War", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#March–April", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Births › March–April"}}, {"year": 1929, "year_label": "1929 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader and Nobel laureate (d. 1968)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372436446#January", "title": "1929", "revid": 1372436446, "section": "Births › January"}}, {"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 5", "text": "December 5 – The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate the Montgomery bus boycott by Black people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173508#December", "title": "1955", "revid": 1371173508, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his \"Letter from Birmingham Jail\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#April", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his \"I Have a Dream\" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#August", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#October", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – The \"Turnaround Tuesday\" march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., stops at the site of \"Bloody Sunday\", to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. On the same day, White supremacists attack three white ministers, leaving Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb in a coma.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#March–April", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against US involvement in the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. The march, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of thousands of people, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco is attended by Coretta Scott King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#April", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. King-assassination riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#March–April", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#April", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Deaths › April"}}, {"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., ovarian cancer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372927208", "title": "Deaths in January 2006", "revid": 1372927208, "section": "Deaths › January"}}]}