• Born on at noon
on January 15, 1929.
• Graduated
from Booker T. Washington High School and was admitted to Morehouse College at age 15 and Graduates
from Morehouse College at age
19.
King Marries Coretta Scott and
settles in Montgomery, Alabama.
• He Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was
arrested on December 1st.
• During the unsuccessful Albany, Georgia
movement, King is arrested on
July 27, 1962 and jailed. He is released.
• At sunset on
April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis, Tennessee. On November
2, a national holiday is proclaimed in King's honor.