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Born
Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia. -
High School
Martin attends Booker T. Washington High School but leaves before graduation due to his acceptance and early admission in the Atlanta Morehouse College program for advanced placement -
college
Martin Luther King attends Morehouse College in Atlanta -
The U.Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in interstate bus travel -
The National Committe
The National Committee on Civil Rights is created by President Harry Truman to investigate racism in America -
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to become a minister and delivered his first prepared sermon in his father's church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at age 18 in the Summer of 1947 -
Martin married Coretta Scott
June 18: Martin marries Coretta Scott at her parent’s home in Marion, Alabama. Coretta was the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott -
Becomes President
Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organized due to protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins -
I HAVE A DREAM
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 -
Last Speech
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 ” -
Death
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
