Jan. 15: Michael King is born in Atlanta. His father changes the boy’s name, as well as his own, to Martin Luther King several years later.
1944
Sept. 20: King enrolls at Morehouse College after passing the entrance exam at age 15.
June 8: King graduates from Morehouse College with bachelor’s degree in sociology.
1951
Sept. 13: King begins graduate studies in systematic theology at Boston University’s School of Theology.
1963
Aug. 28: King delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial as more than 200,000 demonstrators take part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
1964
Jan. 3: Time magazine names King “Man of the Year” for 1963.
Dec. 10: King wins Nobel Peace Prize.
1966
Jan. 26: King and his wife move into a Chicago slum apartment to demand better housing and education in northern U.S. cities.
1968
March 23: King leads 6,000 protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march ends with violence and looting.
April 4: King is shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
April 9: King is buried in Atlanta.
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