Learn about the pivotal moments in the life of renowned civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Explore the crucial moments that created King’s legacy and changed the struggle for racial equality, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the March on Washington. Explore Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspirational life right away!
| Event | Date |
| Birth | Jan 15, 1929 |
| Education | |
| Ordained as a Baptist minister | Feb 25, 1948 |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955-1956 |
| Rosa Parks’ arrest | Dec 1, 1955 |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed | Jan 10, 1957 |
| I Have a Dream speech | Aug 28, 1963 |
| Nobel Peace Prize | Oct 14, 1964 |
| Selma to Montgomery marches | Mar 7, 1965 |
| Voting Rights Act signed into law | Aug 6, 1965 |
| Chicago Freedom Movement | 1965-1967 |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | Apr 4, 1968 |
| Civil Rights Act signed into law | Jul 2, 1964 |
| March on Washington | Aug 28, 1963 |
| Albany Movement | 1961 |
| Birmingham campaign | Apr-63 |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | Apr 16, 1963 |
| Washington, D.C., Emancipation Memorial speech | Apr 14, 1962 |
| Sit-in movement begins | Feb 1, 1960 |
| March from Selma to Montgomery | Mar 21, 1965 |
| Speech at the Lincoln Memorial | Aug 28, 1963 |
| I’ve Been to the Mountaintop speech | Apr 3, 1968 |
| Freedom Riders arrested in Alabama | May 14, 1961 |
| Integration of Little Rock Central High School | Sep 25, 1957 |
| Assassination of Medgar Evers | Jun 12, 1963 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 signed into law | Sep 9, 1957 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law | Apr 11, 1968 |
| March on Frankfort | Mar 5, 1964 |
| National Mall speech | May 17, 1957 |
| March on Washington Movement | 1941 |
| MLK’s first arrest | Mar 22, 1956 |
| Birmingham City Jail letter | Jul 8, 1963 |
| Gandhi’s influence on MLK | |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law | Jul 2, 1964 |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 |
| Meeting with President Kennedy | |
| Boycott of downtown stores in Atlanta | Oct 19, 1960 |
| Integration of University of Alabama | Jun 11, 1963 |
| Assassination of Malcolm X | Feb 21, 1965 |
| Opposition to Vietnam War | |
| Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed into law | May 6, 1960 |
| Arrested during Albany Movement | Jul 27, 1962 |
| Formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Apr 15, 1960 |
| Birmingham bombing | Sep 15, 1963 |
| Chicago open housing movement | 1966 |
| March on Frankfort, Kentucky | Mar 5, |
