January 15, 1929: ·Martin Luther King, Jr. is born
September 20, 1944: ·King enters Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia
June 1948: ·King graduates from Morehouse College with a Bachelor's Degree in sociology
September 1948: ·King enters Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania
June 1951: ·King graduates with a Bachelor's Degree in Divinity studies
September 1951: ·King enters Boston University
June 18, 1953: ·King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama
May 17, 1954: ·United States Supreme Court rules segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
October 31, 1954: ·King becomes pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama
June 5, 1955: ·King receives his PhD from Boston University
November 17, 1955: ·King's first child, Yolanda Denise, is born
December 1, 1955: ·Rosa Parks is arrested for disobeying segregationist policies on a Montgomery bus
December 5, 1955: ·Montgomery Bus Boycott begins
January 30, 1956: ·King's home is bombed
November 13, 1956: ·United States Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional
January 1957: ·Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms in Atlanta, electing King president
February 1957: ·King is featured on the cover of Time Magazine
October 23, 1957: ·King's second child, Martin Luther King III, is born
September 17, 1958: ·King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published
September 20, 1958: ·A mentally ill black woman stabs King in at a Harlem book- signing
February 1959: ·King studies non-violent tactics during a trip to India
January 1960: ·King returns to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
October 19, 1960: ·King is arrested in Atlanta, at one of hundreds of sit-ins that occur throughout the year
January 30, 1961: ·King's third child, Dexter Scott, is born
May 1961: ·King assists in negotiations for the Freedom Riders
December 1961: ·King goes to Albany Georgia, to aid a desegregation campaign, and is arrested
July 27, 1962: ·King is arrested again in Albany
March 28, 1963: ·King's fourth child, Bernice Albertina, is born
April 1963: ·King spends a week in a Birmingham, Alabama jail and writes a letter to the nation
May 3-5, 1963: ·Police attack protestors in Birmingham
June 1963: ·King's second book, a collection of sermons, Strength to Love is published
August 28, 1963: ·250,000 people march on Washington, and King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech
December 3, 1963: ·King meets with Lyndon Johnson to discuss civil rights legislation
January 1964: · Time Magazine names King "Man of the Year"
June 1964: ·King's book Why We Can't Wait is published.
July 1964: ·The Civil Rights Act is signed into law
September 18, 1964: ·King meets with Pope Pius VI
December 10, 1964: ·King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
February 2, 1965: ·King arrested in Selma, Alabama, during voter-registration drive
February 21, 1965: ·Malcolm X is assassinated
March 1965: ·King leads a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery
August 1965: ·President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law
August 1965: ·Massive rioting occurs in Watts, California
August 1965: ·King begins to speak out against the Vietnam War
February 1966: ·King moves to Chicago to commence a SCLC campaign there
June 1966: ·Stokely Carmichael popularizes Black Power as a civil rights rallying cry
July 1966: ·King leads demonstrations in Chicago
April 4, 1967: ·King delivers his first sermon devoted entirely to the issue of Vietnam
November 27, 1967: ·King announces his vision of a Poor People's March on Washington
March 28, 1968: ·King leads a march of black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee
April 4, 1968: ·King is assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis
