Martin

Martin Luther King Jr

By Vanessa Ariza

  • Martin Luther King was born

    Home: 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

  • Graduates Morehouse College at age 15

  • King begins his freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta

  • Receives BA in sociology from Morehouse College at age 19

  • Receives degree from Crozer Theological Seminary

    (Chester, Pa.)

  • Marries Coretta Scott

    they eventually have four children.

  • Becomes minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

    Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Receives Ph.D in systematic theology from Boston University.

  • King leads boycott of segregated Montgomery buses,

  • King's house is bombed

  • Writes Stride Toward Freedom, about the bus boycott.

  • Martin led a march on Washington and gave his speech "I Have A Dream"

  • Martin Luther King was awarded the Noble Peace Price.

  • King is assassinated

    While standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee James Earl Ray shot him.