1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

2. January 15, l929 Martin Luther King Jr. is born

4. September, 1935 Martin Luther King begins school at the all black Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta

5. June 1944 Martin Luther King enters Morehouse College in Atlanta

6. February, l948 Martin Luther King is ordained as a Baptist minister. After graduating from Morehouse College in June, he enters the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania

7. Crozer Theological Seminary

8. June 18, 1953 Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott are married.

9. Coretta Scott King

10. October, l954 October, l954 Martin Luther King becomes pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

11. Dexter Avenue Church

12. June 1955 Martin Luther King receives his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University.

13. November 17, l955 Yolanda Denise King, the King's first child, is born.

14. Yolanda Denise King

15. December 1, l955 Mrs. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

16. December 5, 1955 Martin Luther King is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and lead a year long boycott of the Montgomery busses.

17. Rosa Parks died in 2005

18. January 26, l956 Martin Luther King is arrested for the first time, for a traffic violation.

19. January, 1957 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded. Dr. King is chosen president.

20. February, 1959 Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, visit India. They study Mahatma Gandhi's methods of nonviolent protest.

21. January, l960 The King family moves to Atlanta, where Martin Luther King becomes co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father, Martin Luther King, Sr.

22. Ebenezer Baptist Church

23. February, l960 Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage the first "sit-ins" at "whites-only" lunch counters.

24. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

26. October l9, l960 Martin Luther King is jailed after being arrested at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Atlanta.

27. January 30, l961 Dexter Scott King is born.

29. May, l961 "Freedom riders" leave Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The bus is burned by opponents of desegregation, and the riders are beaten upon arrival in Birmingham, Alabama.

30. September, 1962 Black student James Meredith attempts to enroll at the at the all-white University of Mississippi.

31. March 28, l963 Bernice Albertine King is born.

32. April l2, l963 Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed (for the thirteenth time) during a march in Birmingham, Alabama.

33. May, l963 Dogs and fire hoses are used by police in Birmingham to stop protests.

34. August 28, l963 250,000 people demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in support of civil rights. Martin Luther King meets with President John F. Kennedy and delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.

35. November 22, l963 President Kennedy is assassinated.

36. August, l964 Three young civil rights workers are found murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

37. December, l964 Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

38. March, l965 Martin Luther King and the SCLC begin a voter registration campaign in Alabama. Civil rights protesters attempting to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, are beaten by state patrolmen.

39. August, 1965 The 1965 Voting Right Act is signed by President Johnson.

40. March 28, l968 Martin Luther King leads a march in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.

41. April 3, l968 Martin Luther King delivers his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop.“

42. April 4, l968 Martin Luther King is shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

43. Dr. King Timeline and art work was created by students of Room 100 at the Buckman School in Los Angeles

44. Less Famous Facts The main item on King’s agenda in spring of 1968 was the organization of a Poor Peoples’ March on Washington where thousands of disenfranchised Americans of all races would descend on the capital and protest the country’s economic inequality.

48. Poor People’s Campaign –Protest against economic inequality among American people –Brought together black, white, Native American, and Hispanic poor –Lived in a shantytown in D.C from May 14 – June 24, 1968 –The movement was begun by King, but carried out by Reverent Ralph Abernathy

49. Resurrection City, Aerial View

50. Resurrection City

52. Not Much Has Changed

53. On the Other Hand… 12.6% of the population was below the poverty threshold in 2005 17.6% of children were in poverty 20.0% of children under 6 live in poverty 52.9% of children under 6, living with a female householder with no spouse present lived in poverty

54. In 2005, 15.9 million people were classified as “severely poor” – family incomes less than 50% of their poverty threshold. –The severely poor represented 43.1% of the poor population As health care costs continue to rise as a percentage of family income, more families (including middle income) are unable to afford health insurance –In 2005, 46.6 million were without health insurance (15.9%)

55. The King Center 1968

57. MLK Jr. Holiday

58. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service

60. Future National MLK, Jr. Memorial in D.C.

61. Future MLK, Jr. Memorial in D.C.