A Brief Timeline of the <br />Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929 — Martin Luther <br />King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia. 1948 — At the age of 19, King graduates <br />from Morehouse College with a B.A. in sociology. 1951 — King graduates <br />from Crozer Theological <br />Seminary with a B.Div. degree. June 18, 1953 — King marries <br />Coretta Scott in Heiberger, Alabama. June 6, 1955 — Dr. King receives his Ph.D. <br />degree in systematic theology at Boston University. December 1, 1955 — Rosa Parks refuses <br />to give up her seat on a Montgomery city <br />bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. Dr. King leads the 385 day boycott — enduring <br />arrest and a house bombing — resulting in the end <br />of racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses. September 20, 1958 — Dr. King is stabbed<br /> in the chest by a mentally ill woman in <br />a Harlem department store during a book signing. April, 1963 — Dr. King is arrested for the 13th time <br />during the Birmingham campaign. He composes his <br />famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. August 28, 1963 — Dr. King delivers <br />his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech on <br />the steps of the Lincoln memorial <br />during the March on Washington. The speech helped the passage <br />of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. October 14, 1964 — Dr. King is <br />awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. March 25, 1965 — During the march from Selma to <br />Montgomery, King declared, "the arc of the moral <br />universe is long, but it bends toward justice." April 15, 1967 — King speaks against <br />the Vietnam War, stating, "I would like <br />to see the fervor of the civil-rights <br />movement imbued into the peace movement." April 4, 1968 — Dr. King is <br />assassinated by James Earl Ray <br />at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.
