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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15th 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia in the American South. He was born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King, he was the second of three children. He was given the name of his father at the time, Michael. -
King's father went to Germany on a trip and then changed his name to Martin, changing his son's name too. -
At seventeen King told his father he wanted to be a preacher and he tested him. On 1948, he graduated and continued his studies at a college for preachers. -
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott met in Boston in the early 1950s, King was pursuing a doctoral carrer at Boston University and Scott was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. They married on June 18 1953 in Heiberger, Perry County -
Martin Luther King got his first job at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, King preached to the city's black doctors, teachers and better-paid black people. -
After finishing his studies, he graduated as Dr. Martin Luther King in 1955. -
white city leaders told the MIA to stop the bus boycott, but MLK did it again and got arrested for boycotting and joined the boycotters in jail on February 24 1956. -
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of more than 250000 protest marchers in Washington, D.C. and gave one of the most famous speeches in US history. -
On December 10 1964, at the age of 35, Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. He was the youngest winner in history. -
After waiting outside at the Memphis Hotel, at six o'clock, a gunshot was heard. King was shot in the face by James Earl Ray. King was taken to the hospital, but died at 7:05 pm on April 4, 1968.