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Martin Luther King Jr. was born to Albreta (Teacher) and Micheal (Baptist Minister) King
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Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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After the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals.
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Martin was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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While standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
