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