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Born in Atlanta, GA
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When he was 5 years old, he was told he could no longer be friends with a boy he used to play with simply because Martin was black and his friend was white.
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During the trip home from winning an all state speech competition, he and his speech teacher were forced to stand the remaining 90 miles home to Atlanta because two white people had gotten on the bus and there were no other seats.
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At age 15, he became a freshman at Morehouse College, an all black college known for high academic standards, in Atlanta.
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He graduated Morehouse College at the age of 19 and decides he wants to go to seminary school up north.
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He moves up north and goes to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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He moves to Boston for further graduate study.
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He and Coretta move to Montgomery, AL so he could be the pastor of a church.
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He recieves his doctorate and becomes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Coretta gave birth to the family's first child, a daughter named Yolanda King.
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The black community of Montgomery protests the buses after the arrest of Rosa Parks the previous Thursday. Dr. King helped lead it from his church.
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Dr. King was nominated and elected president of Montgomery Improvement Association following the bus boycotts earlier that day.
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After several hateful calls and threats because of leading the bus boycott, Dr. King's house was bomed while he was at church one day.
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He was one of the first group to ride on a Supreme COurt madated integrated bus.
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Dr. King and other black leaders created the SCLC to continue to fight racism of the South. He was unanimously elected an officer.
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He was signing his book "Stride Toward Freedom" in Harlem when a black woman came up and stabbed him with a sharpened letter opener.
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The King family leaves Montgomery and moves back to Atlanta where Dr. King rejoins Ebenezer Baptist as his father's assistant.
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Dr. King joins a student sit-in in Atlanta and is then arrested for trepassing.
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Dr. King is arrested during a protest march through Birmingham and is sent to jail. During the next eleven days is when he writes his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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Dr. King and hundreds of thousands of other people (black and white) joined at the nation's captiol for a protest march. At Lincoln Memorial that afternoon, he gave his famed "I have a dream" speech.
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He appeared on the cover of "TIME" magazine for Man of the Year.
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He had made major contirbutiuons towards promoting peace, he was the youngest person to recieve the award.
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Dr. King was arrested in Selma during a protest march to Montgomery to help get blacks a fair opportunity to vote.
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His family moves to a slum in Chicago, IL to help improve the rights of blacks in the nort as well.
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Dr. King began a march similar to ones he had led in the past for the rights of the poor. But, this march turned violent.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis, TN.
