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Michael Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Baptist minister Michael Luther King and Schoolteacher Alberta King.
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His brother named Alfred Daniel was born (July 30, 1930 – July 1, 1969).
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His education continued over the next few years at the David T. Howard Elementary School and the Atlanta University Laboratory School
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Illinois at Jack Spratt's Coffee Shop
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"Freedom Riders" tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South
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Martin Luther King is appointed to serve as the assistant pastorat Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
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King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a B.A. in Sociology at the age of 19
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King begins attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Martin marries Coretta Scott at her parent’s home in Marion, Alabama. Coretta was the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott.
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The first bus boycott starts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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King earns his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston University
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Yoland Denise, King’s first child, is born at Montgomery, Alabama
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Rosa Parks, a 42 year old seamstress, is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white male passenger.
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Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organised due to protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Dr. Martin Luther King’s house is bombed, there are no injuries.
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The Montgomery buses are desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses.
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At the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial, King’s delivers his first national address entitled, “Give Us The Ballot.”
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King is stabbed by a woman while at a book signing in a department store in Harlem, New York.
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King is arrested for breaking the state of Georgia's trespassing law while picketing in Atlanta.
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Martin Luther King meets with President Kennedy to gain his support for the civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King meets with President John F. Kennedy and after their meeting Dr. King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 250,000 at the Marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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King invited to the White House while President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Accommodation and Fair Employment sections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964。
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Martin Luther King becomes the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means.
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Dr. King delivers his last speech at a rally at Mason Temple (the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ), Memphis. The famous and inspiring “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop speech ”
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While standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee Dr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed.
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His funeral was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta. More than 300,000 people marched through Atlanta with his mule-drawn coffin. He is buried in South View Cemetery, Atlanta。
