2. Birth
 When: January 15, 1929
 Where: Atlanta, Georgia
 Parents: Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta
Williams King

3. Childhood
 Siblings: Willie Christine King, Alfred Daniel
Williams King
 Sceptical of Christian claims
 Seminary  Bible has "many profound truths
which one cannot escape”

4. Studies
 Booker T. Washington High School
 Morehouse College
 1948 – B.A. degree in sociology at Morehouse
College
 1951 – B.Div. degree at Crozer Theological
Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania
 1955 – Ph.D. degree in systematic theology at
Boston University

5. Family
 June 18, 1953 – Married Coretta Scott
 Four children: Yolanda King, Martin Luther King
III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King

6. Religion
 1954 – became pastor of the Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
 love your neighbor as yourself, love God
above all, and love your enemies, pray for
them and bless them.

7. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
 December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks was arrested
for refusing to give up her seat on the bus
 Campaign – The Montgomery Bus Boycott
 Result – The end of racial segregation on all
Montgomery public buses

8. African-American Civil Rights
Movement
 Bayard Rustin – King’s advisor and mentor
 1957 – King and other civil rights activists founded
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC)
 1959 – trip to India to learn more about the nonviolence resistance of Gandhi

9. March on Washington
 When: August 28, 1963
 Where: in front of the Lincoln Memorial,
Washington D.C.
 Theme: Jobs and Freedom
 Speech: “I have a dream”
 1994 – Nobel Peace Price

10. “I have a dream”
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons
of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit
down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state
sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression,
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious
racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black
boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and
white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today”

11. Assassination
 When: April 4, 1968
 Where: Memphis, Tennessee
 How: shot by James Earl Ray

12. Martin Luther King’s day
 When: third Monday of January
 First time: 1986
 All 50 states: 2000