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Martin Luther King Jr. was born
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Martin attended Booker T. Wasington High School in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a good student and skipped 9th and 12th grade.
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Admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.
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Graduates from Morehouse College.
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Marries Coretta Scott.
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Leads Montgomery bus boycott. It all started with Rosa Parks.
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King gives "I Have A Dream Speech" in Washington D.C.
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King wins the Noble Peace Prize.
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Shot and killed in Memphis, Tenessee.