The
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta
after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956. King was found
guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses in a campaign to desegregate
the bus system, but a judge suspended his $500 fine pending appeal. (AP
Photo/Gene Herrick)Gene Herrick/STF

Dr. Benjamin Spock, left, Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., center, and Monsignor Charles O. Rice link arms as they march in an
anti-Vietnam war rally in New York's Central Park on April 15, 1967.
(AP Photo)

The Rev. Martin Luther King, integration leader,
addresses a crowd on a street in Lakeview, New York May 12, 1965. The
Nobel Prize winner arrived in the day from Atlanta, Ga., for a whirlwind
tour of Nassau County to advance the cause of African Americans in that
area. (AP Photo)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, right, talks with
civil rights leaders in his White House office in Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 18, 1964. The black leaders, from left, are, Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP); James Farmer, national director of the Committee
on Racial Equality; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference; and Whitney Young, executive director
of the Urban League. (AP Photo)

President Eisenhower poses in his office, June 23,
1958, with black leaders with whom he discussed civil rights issues.
Left to right: Lester B. Granger, executive secretary, National Urban
League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery, Al., president of the
Southern Leadership Conference; E. Frederic Morrow, White House
administrative officer; Eisenhower; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO vice
president and head of International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters;
Attorney General William Rogers; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The
callers told Eisenhower that court ordered suspension of school
integration at Little Rock, AR "has shocked and outraged black citizens
and millions of their fellow Americans." (AP Photo)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., second from left,
shakes hands with Vice President Richard Nixon as they meet to discuss
race issues in the South, June 13, 1957. Senator Irving M. Ives (R-NY)
and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, far left and far right, look
on. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

The Rev. Robert A. Graetz, white pastor of a black
Lutheran Church in Montgomery, Ala., testified March 22, 1956 that he
has never heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. urge blacks to not ride
Montgomery city buses. Dr. King is charged with leading a conspiracy
to boycott the buses. Graetz is shown talking to King on the courthouse
steps after his testimony. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

Family members and friends of the assassinated
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., follow his casket into
an Atlanta funeral home after the body arrived from Memphis, on April 5,
1968. From left are: King's brother, the Rev. A.D. Williams King; Dr.
Ralph Abernathy, King's close associate and new head of the SCLC,
Coretta Scott King, the widow, and her two sons, Martin Luther III, 10,
and Dexter, 7. (AP Photo/Bill hudson)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his last public
appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968. The
following day King was assassinated on his motel balcony. (AP
Photo/Charles Kelly)

Part of the crowd which jammed Independence Hall
mall in Philadelphia, April 5, 1968 hears Stanley Branche, in center in
white suit, declare that "this country declared war when it killed this
twentieth century saint and prophet." Thousands crowded in the historic
area at the rally which paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, who was
slain yesterday in Memphis. (AP Photo/Bill Achatz)

Six men hang a sign in honor of slain civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at an expressway bridge near King's
Southern Christian Leadership Conference headquarters in Atlanta, April
8, 1968. Funeral services for King will be conducted Tuesday. (AP
Photo/Toby Massey)

One of the many persons who visit the tomb of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. daily adds flowers to a vase left by another
mourner in Atlanta on April 4, 1969. (AP Photo/BJ)

Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. King rose to national prominence as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which promoted nonviolent tactics, such as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

I may not have put all the info in chronological order.A man to be respected!