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Martin L. K. was born in Atlanta in the 1929. His father, a reverend of the Baptist Church, was nigerian and irish descents. -
His legal name at birth was Michael King, but his father, during a travel in Holy Land and in Berlin, where he was fascinated by the figure of Martin Luther, decided to change the name to Martin Luther King -
After the elementary school, he attended the exsperimental school of the University of Atlanta and after he attended the Washington High School -
At the age of just 13 he became the youngest deputy editor of a newspaper for his collaboration with the Atlanta Journal -
When he was 14 and returned from a bus trip to Dublin, he and others were forced to give up his seats to white passengers -
He graduated in sociology at the Morehouse College of Atlanta -
In 1953 he married Coretta Scott -
In 1954 he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Boston and after he becomes a shepherd like his father in Alabama -
In 1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested, he led the protest action against the abuses of the Whites by a boycott of public transport that lasted 382 days but this action ended in a victory by the black population -
In 1957 he founds the Sclc, a movement that fights for the rights of all minorities -
During the march on Washington, King gives his first speech: "I have a dream..." -
In 1964 King received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo -
On April 4, 1968 in Memphis he was murdered