Martin Luther King, Jr.

By dawgfan96

  • Born in Atlanta, Georgia

  • Graduated from high school at the age of 15

  • Graduated from Morehouse College

  • Graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary

  • Married Coretta Scott

  • Earned his PhD from Boston University

  • Founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • Made a trip to India to meet Ghandi

  • Became co-pastor alongside his father of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

  • Wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

  • Delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington

  • Named Time magazine's "Man of the Year"

  • Participated in the Selma to Montgomery March

  • Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee