This coming Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. day, it celebrates him as a person and his many achievements in life. In school, we learned all about Martin Luther King Jr. and his achievements in life. I made a timeline with all the important dates and events in his lifetime. It includes events from the dates of January 15, 1929 to April 9, 1968. This is it:
Martin Luther King Jr. Timeline
| Date | Event |
| January 15, 1929 | BORN
Martin Luther King Jr, was born in Atlanta, GA |
| September 20, 1944 | COLLEGE
Martin Luther King Jr, enrolls at Morehouse College |
| February 25, 1948 | ASSISTANT PASTOR
Martin Luther King Jr, becomes an assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, his father’s church |
| June 8, 1948 | COLLEGE GRADUATE
Martin Luther King Jr, graduates from Morehouse College with a bachelor’s degree in sociology |
| September 14, 1948 | CROZER
Martin Luther King Jr, enters Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, PA |
| January, 1958 | CORETTA SCOTT
Martin Luther King Jr, meets Coretta Scott in Boston |
| June 18, 1953 | MARRIAGE
Martin Luther King Jr, gets married to Coretta Scott near Marion, Ala |
| December 5, 1955 | PRESIDENT
Martin Luther King Jr is named president of the Montgomery Improvement Association |
| January 30, 1956 | BOMBED
Martin Luther King Jr’s home was bombed, no one was harmed |
| February 18, 1957 | TIME
Martin Luther King Jr, appears on the cover on the Time Magazine |
| May 17, 1957 | SPEECH
Martin Luther King Jr, delivers his first national address, “Give Us the Ballot” |
| September 20, 1958 | STABBED
Martin Luther King Jr, is stabbed at a book signing with a letter opener by a mentally ill woman but he lived |
| February 1, 1960 | MOVES
Martin Luther King Jr, moves to Atlanta to focus on the civil rights struggle |
| October 19, 1960 | ARRESTED
Martin Luther King Jr, is arrested at a sit-in demonstration at a department store |
| December 16, 1961 | ARRESTED
Martin Luther King Jr, and many others were arrested in a desegregation campaign |
| April 16, 1963 | LETTER
Martin Luther King Jr, after being arrested wrote his famous Letter From a Birmingham |
| August 28, 1963 | SPEECH
Martin Luther King Jr, gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial |
| December 10, 1964 | PRIZE
Martin Luther King Jr, wins the Nobel Peace Prize |
| August 12, 1965 | SPEECH
Martin Luther King Jr, leads civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery |
| January 26, 1966 | MOVES
Martin Luther King Jr, moves to a Chicago apartment to demand better housing and education |
| December 4, 1967 | PLANS
Martin Luther King Jr, unveils plans for a Poor People’s Campaign |
| March 23, 1968 | MARCH
Martin Luther King Jr, leads 6,00 people in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. It ends in violence and looting |
| April 3, 1968 | SPEECH
Martin Luther King delivers his final speech “I’ve been to the Mountaintop” |
| April 4, 1968 | DEATH
Martin Luther King Jr, was shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel |
| April 9, 1968 | BURIAL
Martin Luther King Jr, was buried in Atlanta |
Martin Luther King has achieved many things, and done many speeches. He delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech. It is a very motivational speech, it really made a big impact on those who wanted segregation. Think about it, if Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t stood up for civil rights, had he not spoken out, things just might be the same now as they were back then. In his speech, Martin Luther King Jr, said “all men are created equal,” thanks to him, there are.
I never knew all of those things about Martin Luther king Jr. I thought it was great how you put together a timeline to show his whole life.