Martin Luther King Jr By jihadyaghmour 1968 BCE Death 1958 BCE Writes Stride Toward Freedom, about the bus boycott. 1955 BCE Receives Ph.D in systematic theology from Boston University. 1954 BCE Becomes minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama 1953 BCE Marries New England Conservatory music student Coretta Scott; they eventually have four children. 1951 BCE Receives degree from Crozer Theological Seminary (Chester, Pa.). 1948 BCE Receives BA in sociology from Morehouse College at age 19 1944 BCE Graduates high school at age 15. 1929 BCE Birth