Martin Luther King Life

By yvonni

  • Martin Luther King Life

    Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher

  • 1944

    Enters Moorehouse College at age 15

  • 1948

    Graduates from Moorehouse college with a Sociology degree

  • Pastor

    King is ordained and appointed assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

  • 1951

    Earns a B.A in Diinty from Crozer Thedogical Semindry

  • 1953

    Marries Coretta Scott in Marion Alabama

  • 1954

    Becomes a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama

  • 1955

    Leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • 1957

    Helps found the Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC)

  • 1963

    Delivers the famous I have a Dream speech during the March on Washington

  • 1964

    Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to nonviolence

  • 1965

    Leads the Selma to Montgomery marches contributing to the passage of the Voting Rights Act

  • 1967

    Speaks out against the Vietnam War and launch the Poor People's Compaign

  • 1968

    Assassinated on April 4 in Mewphis Tennessee While supporting striking sanitation workers