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Martin Luther King Jr. was born at noon in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.
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Martin Luther King Jr. marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King Jr. becomes co-pastor with his father at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
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During the Georgia movement, Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed.
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On January 3, Martin Luther King Jr. appears on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year.
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Martin Luther King Jr. died on after being shot while watching over the balcony of a motel in Tennessee on April 4, 1968
