M.L.K. Jr. graduates Booker T. Washington high school, skipping ninth and twelfth grade and at the age of fifteen enters Morehouse College
Graduates Morehouse college with a B.A. degree in Sociology
Enrolls in Crozer Theological Seminary. Also studies at the university of Pennsylvania. Ordained to baptist ministry
Receives degree from Crozer Theological Seminary (Chester, Pa.), enrolls in Boston University Ph.D program.
Martin Luther King Jr. Marries Coretta Scott. Settles in Montgomery, Alabama
Received Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from Boston University
Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested
Elected president for the Montgomery Improvement association, which also declared him the official spokesman for the famous Bus Boycott
On November 13, the Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott.
King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights
The U.S. Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction
In November, the Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel due to work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders. Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) began first Freedom Ride through the South, in a Greyhound bus, after
The March on Washington was the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 people attending it. At the march, King makes his famous I Have a Dream speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8&feature=related
At sunset Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
