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April 4, 1967:
In a speech titled “Beyond Vietnam,” delivered at Riverside Church in Manhattan, King declares his opposition to the Vietnam War. 

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March 1965:
In response to the continued disenfranchisement of millions of black people across the South, the SCLC and other civil-rights groups demand voting rights in a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. 

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December 10, 1964:
King receives the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 35, he is its youngest recipient so far. 

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August 28, 1963:
His soaring call for racial justice comes to be known as the “I Have a Dream” speech, after his ad-libbed ending.

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February 1959:
At the invitation of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, King visits India for a month, meeting with social reformers, government officials, and associates of the late Mahatma Gandhi,

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January 10–11, 1957:
They soon elect King as the organization’s president

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1955–56:
Activists organize a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, after Rosa Parks, a black woman, is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. 

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June 18, 1953:
King marries Coretta Scott, an activist and aspiring singer from Alabama studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.

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June 8, 1948:
King graduates from Morehouse College, in Atlanta, with a bachelor’s degree in sociology

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January 15, 1929:
Michael King Jr. is born in Atlanta