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Martin Luther King Jr is born at 501 Auburn Ave. In Atlanta, Georgia
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Martin Luther King, Sr, Alberta Williams moves to 193 Boulevard in Alanta
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Martin Luther King Jr started his freshman year at Morehouse College. -
The Atlanta Constitution publishes King's letter to the editor saying "Black people are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of Americans citizens."
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King receives his bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College.
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King graduates from Crozer with a bachelor of divinity degree.
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King begins his graduate studies in systematic theology at Boston University. -
King and Coretta Scott are married at the Scott home near Marion, Atlanta
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Yolanda Denise King was born and is Kings first child
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Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white woman -
At 9:15 pm, King was at a meeting when his house blew up. His daughter and wife were not injured and he addresses the people around his house pleading for nonviolence.
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At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. King gives his first national address. "Give Us The Ballot" at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. -
King and Ralph D. Aberthany meet with the vice president Richard M. Nixon and have a statement on their meeting.