Martin Luther King Junior was born on January 15, 1929. Atlanta, Georgia in the family home at, 501 Auburn Avenue.        

In 1968 Dr. King went to Tennessee to march there for equal pay for black and white garbage workers. He was standing on his motel balcony when he got shot by James Earl Ray.

When Dr. King died he left behind his four children and his wife. The marker on his gravestone says “I’m free at last.”