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Martin was born noon at January 15, 1929 in Alanta, 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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Graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary.
Ordained to the Baptist ministry, February 25, 1948, at age 19. -
Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. On December 5, he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.
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On November 13, the Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott.
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On a speaking tour, Martin Luther King, Jr. is nearly killed when stabbed by an assailant in Harlem. Met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Grange on problems affecting black Americans.
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Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, North Carolina. In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is released
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During the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement, King is arrested on July 27 and jailed.
