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Born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

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Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15.

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-Graduates from Morehouse College and enters Crozer Theological Seminary.
-Ordained to the Baptist ministry, February 25, 1948, at age 19.

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Enters Boston University for graduate studies.

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Marries Coretta Scott and settles in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Received Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts on June 5, 1955

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King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights. On May 17, Dr. King  speaks to a crowd of 15,000 in Washington

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-The U.S. Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction.
-King’s first book, Stride Toward Freedom, is published.
-On a speaking tour, Martin Luther King, Jr. is nearly killed when stabbed by an assailant in Harlem.
-Met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Grange to discuss on problems affecting black Americans

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-Visited India to study Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence.
-Resigns as pastor from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to concentrate on civil rights full time.
-He moves to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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-Becomes co-pastor with his father at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
-In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is released.

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In November, the Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel due to work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders.

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During the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia movement, King is arrested on July 27 and jailed.

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-April 12, King is arrested with Ralph Abernathy by Police Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor for demonstrating without a permit.
-On April 13, the Birmingham campaign is launched. This would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South.
-During the eleven days he spent in jail, MLK writes his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
-On May 10, the Birmingham Agreement is announced. The stores, restaurants, and schools will be desegregated, hiring of blacks implemented, and charges dropped.
-June 23, MLK leads 125,000 people on a Freedom Walk in Detroit.
-August 28, the March on Washington becomes the largest civil rights demonstration in history with nearly 250,000 people in attendance and King makes his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
-On November 22, President Kennedy is assassinated.

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-On January 3, King appears on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year.
-King attends the signing ceremony of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the White House on July 2.
-During the summer, King experiences his first hurtful rejection by black people when he is stoned by Black Muslims in Harlem.
-King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10. Dr. King is the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35.

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-On February 2, King is arrested in Selma, Alabama during a voting rights demonstration.
-After President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, Martin Luther King, Jr. turns to socioeconomic problems.

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-On January 22, King moves into a Chicago slum tenement to attract attention to the living condition of the poor.
-In June, King and others begin the March Against Fear through the South.
-On July 10, King initiates a campaign to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schools in Chicago.

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-The Supreme Court upholds a conviction of MLK by a Birmingham court for demonstrating without a permit. King spends four days in a Birmingham jail.
-On November 27, King announces the inception of the Poor People’s Campaign focusing on jobs and freedom for the poor of all races.
-Dr. King marches in support of sanitation workers on strike in Memphis, Tennessee.
-On March 28, King leads a march that turns violent. This was the first time one of his events had turned violent.
-Delivered "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
-King announces that the Poor People’s Campaign will culminate in a March on Washington demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights guaranteeing employment to the able-bodied, income to those unable to work, and an end to housing discrimination.

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-At sunset on April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
-There are riots and disturbances in 130 American cities. There were twenty thousand arrests. King’s funeral on April 9 is an international event. Within a week of the assassination, the Open Housing Act is passed by Congress.