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Martin Luther King, Jr.,was born Michael Luther King, Jr.
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Michael King Sr. stepped in as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church upon the death of his father-in-law.
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He skipped both the ninth and eleventh grades, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15.
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During the work on his doctorate, Martin Luther King Jr. met Coretta Scott, an aspiring singer and musician, at the New England Conservatory school in Boston. They were married and had four children.
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King was married to Coretta Scott
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The first bus boycott starts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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A 15-year-old girl refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus in violation of local law.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s house was bombed by segregationists in retaliation for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The boycott’s were success, he and other civil rights activists—most of them fellow ministers—founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a group committed to achieving full equality for African Americans through nonviolent protest.
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King penned the civil rights manifesto known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,”
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The ¨I have a dream speech was told to 250,000 people and spoke of how the black men and women weren't free.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray