Martin Luther King Jr. · every age

What was Martin Luther King Jr. doing at 31?

Led a bus boycott at 26, won the Nobel at 35, dead at 39

1. c. 1960

   Moved to Atlanta as co-pastor of Ebenezer with his father

   To be closer to the SCLC's headquarters.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org
2. Oct 1960

   Jailed after an Atlanta sit-in; freed after a Kennedy call

   Sentenced to hard labour on a traffic technicality. JFK's call to Coretta swung Black votes.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Bernie Faingold (1964), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source