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Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia
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Summer of 1941 The King family Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta Williams King, Willie Christine King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Alfred Daniel Williams King changes homes in Atlanta, Georgia.
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King begins his first freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia.
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Dr King’s letter gets published and send to the editor stating that black people "are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens."
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King becomes a assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta,Georgia.
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King graduates and gets his bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College in 1948
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King begins to study again in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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King begins to study his graduate studies in systematic theology at Boston University in 1951.
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King and his wife Coretta Scott get married in the Scott home near Marion, Alabama in the year of 1953.
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King becomes a pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
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King is awarded doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University.
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Dr kings daughter Yolanda Denise King, Dr Kings’ first child, is born in November of 1955.
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At a mass meeting at the Baptist Church, in Montgomery, a Improvement Association(MIA) is formed. And Dr King is chosen to be its president.
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Dr king gets a threatening phone call from a anonyms person on 1956
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while Dr King speaks at mass, his home is bombed. His wife and daughter where inside the home at the time of the bombing but where not hurt.
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The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the lower court opinion in Browder v. Gayle declaring Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws unconstitutional.
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Montgomery City Lines resumes full service on all routes. Dr king is one of the first African American man to ride the bus again.
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Southern black ministers meet in Atlanta to share strategies in the fight against raciest . King is named chairman of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference.
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Dr King appears on the cover of Time magazine in 1957
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King attends the independence celebrations in Ghana in West Africa and meets with Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah.
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At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., King delivers his first national address, "Give Us The Ballot," at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom.
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King and Ralph D. Abernathy meet with Vice President Richard M. Nixon and discuses a statement on their meeting that day.
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Coretta King gives birth to their second child, Martin, III
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King’s first book Stride Toward Freedom is realsesed The Montgomery Story is published.
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During a book signing at Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem, New York,Dr King was stabbed by a African American woman named izola ware curry, dr king was rushed to the hospital where he survived the attack.
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King embarks on a month-long visit to India where he meets with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and many of his followers to talk about world peace.
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King moves from Montgomery to Atlanta to devote more time to SCLC and the freedom struggle. He becomes a assistant pastor to his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia.
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King was found not guilty of tax fraud by a white jury in Montgomery and was set free.
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King goes to New York City and meets in private with president John F. Kennedy.
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King is arrested during a sit-in demonstration at Rich’s department store in Atlanta. He is sentenced to four months hard labor for violating a suspended sentence he received for a 1956 traffic violation. But He was released on $2000 bond on 27 October 1960.
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Dexter Scott, King’s third child, is born.
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After the initial group of Freedom Riders seeking to integrate bus terminals are assaulted in Alabama, Dr King talks to a large rally of mobs at the Montgomery church.
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King, Ralph Abernathy, and Albany Movement president William G. Anderson, and other protesters are arrested by the Albany georgia police during a campaign in Albany, Georgia.
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King is arrested at an Albany, Georgia prayer vigil and jailed. After spending two weeks in jail, dr King was finally released from jail.
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During the closing session conference in Birmingham, Alabama, a member of the American Nazi Party assaults King, striking him twice in the face.
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Bernice Albertine, King’s fourth child, is born
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Strength to Love, King's book of sermons, is published and released to the public.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom attracts more than two hundred thousand demonstrators to the Lincoln Memorial. Organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the march is supported by all major civil rights organizations as well as by many labor and religious groups. King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. After the march, King and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House.
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King delivers the eulogy at the funerals of Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, three of the four children that were killed during the 15 September bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Carole Robertson, the fourth victim, where buried in a separate ceremony.
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U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorizes the FBI to wiretap Dr King’s home phone.
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King is named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with King, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and James Farmer and seeks support for his War to end racism.
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Robert Hayling, leader of the movement in St. Augustine, Florida, invites dr king to join them in the struggle
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King meets Malcolm X in Washington, D.C. for the first and only time.
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King's book Why We Can’t Wait is published and was released to the public in 1964
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King and SCLC staff launch a People-to-People tour of Mississippi to assist the Student Nonviolent caimpaing
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Dr King was seen as the biggest lier to the country according to the us FBI in 1964
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King meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover at the Justice Department to discus the fbi fake actuation against dr king in 1964
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King receives the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He declares that "every penny" of the $54,000 award will be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle to end the racism in America.
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The King family moves to their new home at 234 Sunset Avenue in Atlanta.
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In an event that will become known as "Bloody Sunday," voting rights marchers where beaten at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as they attempt to march to Montgomery against racism
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King, James Forman, and John Lewis lead civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery after a U.S. District judge upholds the right of demonstrators to conduct an orderly march.
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King publicly opposes the Vietnam War at a mass rally at the Ninth Annual Convention of SCLC in Birmingham.
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King and his wife move into an apartment at 1550 South Hamlin Avenue in Chicago to draw attention to the city's poor housing conditions.
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In Chicago, King meets Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
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King, Floyd McKissick of CORE, and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC resume James Meredith’s "March Against Fear" from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, after Meredith was shot and wounded near Memphis.
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King delivers "Beyond Vietnam" to a gathering of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. He demands that the U.S. take new initiatives to end the war.
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King’s book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is published.
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King publicly reveals his plans to organize a mass civil disobedience campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, in Washington, D.C., to force the government to end poverty.
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King leads a march of six thousand protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march descends into violence and looting, and King is rushed from the scene.
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King returns to Memphis, determined to lead a peaceful march. During an evening rally at Mason Temple in Memphis, King delivers his final speech, "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop."
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King is shot and killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
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King is buried in Atlanta
