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Birth
Born in Atlanta, GA -
Denied a Friend
When he was 5 years old, he was told he could no longer be friends with a boy he used to play with simply because Martin was black and his friend was white. -
Moved from bus seats
During the trip home from winning an all state speech competition, he and his speech teacher were forced to stand the remaining 90 miles home to Atlanta because two white people had gotten on the bus and there were no other seats. -
Started at Morehouse College
At age 15, he became a freshman at Morehouse College, an all black college known for high academic standards, in Atlanta. -
Graduated Morehouse
He graduated Morehouse College at the age of 19 and decides he wants to go to seminary school up north. -
Begins Crozer Theological Seminary
He moves up north and goes to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. -
Graduates Crozer Seminary
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Enrolls in Boston University
He moves to Boston for further graduate study. -
Marries Coretta Scott
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Move to Montgomery
He and Coretta move to Montgomery, AL so he could be the pastor of a church. -
Graduates Boston University
He recieves his doctorate and becomes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Birth of First Child
Coretta gave birth to the family's first child, a daughter named Yolanda King. -
Helps Bus Boycott
The black community of Montgomery protests the buses after the arrest of Rosa Parks the previous Thursday. Dr. King helped lead it from his church. -
Elected President of MIA
Dr. King was nominated and elected president of Montgomery Improvement Association following the bus boycotts earlier that day. -
Montgomery House was Bombed
After several hateful calls and threats because of leading the bus boycott, Dr. King's house was bomed while he was at church one day. -
Integrated Montgomery busses
He was one of the first group to ride on a Supreme COurt madated integrated bus. -
Start of Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dr. King and other black leaders created the SCLC to continue to fight racism of the South. He was unanimously elected an officer. -
Stabbed at Book Signing
He was signing his book "Stride Toward Freedom" in Harlem when a black woman came up and stabbed him with a sharpened letter opener. -
Move Back to Atlanta
The King family leaves Montgomery and moves back to Atlanta where Dr. King rejoins Ebenezer Baptist as his father's assistant. -
Joins a sit-in
Dr. King joins a student sit-in in Atlanta and is then arrested for trepassing. -
Arrested in Birmingham
Dr. King is arrested during a protest march through Birmingham and is sent to jail. During the next eleven days is when he writes his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. -
I Have a Dream
Dr. King and hundreds of thousands of other people (black and white) joined at the nation's captiol for a protest march. At Lincoln Memorial that afternoon, he gave his famed "I have a dream" speech. -
"TIME" Man of the Year
He appeared on the cover of "TIME" magazine for Man of the Year. -
Wins Nobel Peace Prize
He had made major contirbutiuons towards promoting peace, he was the youngest person to recieve the award. -
Arrested in Selma, AL
Dr. King was arrested in Selma during a protest march to Montgomery to help get blacks a fair opportunity to vote. -
Moves to Chicago
His family moves to a slum in Chicago, IL to help improve the rights of blacks in the nort as well. -
Led Memphis, TN March
Dr. King began a march similar to ones he had led in the past for the rights of the poor. But, this march turned violent. -
Assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, TN.
