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He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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When he was only 6 years, two white friends told him they were not allowed to play with it.
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He sang with the choir of his church in Atlanta to present the film Gone with the Wind.
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At age 15 on Morehouse College, a university reserved for black youth, without having formally graduated from high school.
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In 1948, he graduated in sociology from Morehouse and he enrolled in the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, which he left with a degree of Bachelor of Divinity
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he married on June 18, 1953 Coretta Scott , which took its name to become Coretta Scott King, in the garden of the house of the fathers of your bathroom Heiberger , had four children
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Organized peaceful protest
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Gives speech "I have a dream"
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On April 4, 1968 at 18 hours and one minute , Martin Luther King he was assassinated by a white segregationist in the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis (Tennessee ) .
