LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Born: Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta.

Education:

• Entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15.

• Divinity degree, Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa.

• Ph.D. in theology, Boston University, 1955

Civil rights accomplishments:

• Founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957

• Organized 1963 March on Washington, where he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech

• Received Nobel Peace Prize, 1964, for his work as a civil rights leader

Assassination:

• Shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968. He is buried in Atlanta.

— McClatchy Newspapers