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Martin Luther King, is born in Atlanta (Georgia) United States. Two years later, Martin L. King's father becomes priest of Baptist Ebenezer chruch. -
Martin L. King marries Coretta Scott and had four children. -
King becomes de Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Alabama) in response to the imprisonment of the black people rights activist Rosa Parks -
This is the most famous sentence in MLK's life. He pronounced this words in the stairs of the President Lincoln Monument in Washington DC. He said that he dreamed in a society without segregation, where the rights for all the people were the same. -
King won the Nobel Prize in Oslo (Norway), there he declared that every penny of the $54,000 prize would go towards the strong fight for civil rights. -
Martin L. King leads the March from Selma to Montgomery (Alabama) for the right to vote. The march ended on March 25 with his speech "How Long, Not Long". -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam: A Moment to Break the Silence" speech at Riverside Church in New York City was a radical rallying cry against the Vietnam War and a turning point in his activism, linking the fight for civil rights with global justice. -
The Voting Rights Act is signed, thanks in part to his activism. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," was delivered at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, to members of the AFSCME union supporting the sanitation workers' strike. It is considered prophetic, as he was assassinated the following day. -
Martin Luther King is murdered at the age of 39, and he died at St. Josephs Hospital (Memphis)