Intro -- Introduction -- The Negro and the Constitution -- I have a dream -- Chapter 1 -- Early Life -- A Family of Ministers -- Mother Dear -- The Jim Crow South -- Home life -- School days -- A taste of freedom -- Chapter 2 -- The Collegiate Years -- Morehouse College -- Crozer Theological Seminary -- Boston University -- The Future Mrs. King -- Chapter 3 -- The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church -- Part-time pastor -- Full-time Minister -- Social reformer -- Chapter 4 -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Daddy King -- Rosa Louis McCauley Parks -- Claudette Colvin -- The Right Candidate -- Parks day in court -- The Montgomery Improvement Association -- Birth of a Movement -- The resolution -- Meeting with the mayor -- King's First Arrest -- House bombing -- Browder v. Gayle -- The waiting game -- King's First Integrated Bus Ride -- Chapter 5 -- Striding Toward Freedom -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Time Magazine -- In the Shadow of Lincoln -- Americans Abroad -- Springarn Medal -- Another Arrest -- Assassination Attempt -- Journey to India -- Chapter 6 -- The Albany Movement -- Tax troubles -- Homecoming and Student Sit-ins -- Meeting the Future President -- Student sit-in arrest -- The Albany Movement -- End of the movement -- Chapter 7 -- I Have a Dream -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- "D" Day -- The March on Washington -- Tragedy Strikes -- FBI Wiretapping -- Tragedy Strikes Again -- Chapter 8 -- The Poor People's March -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Nobel Prize -- Selma, Alabama -- March across Edmund Pettus Bridge -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- The Chicago Freedom Movement -- July riots -- Open Housing -- The Vietnam War -- The Poor People's Campaign -- Chapter 9 -- Free at Last -- Memphis Sanitation Strike -- I've Been to the Mountaintop -- Free at Last -- The Assassin -- Chapter 10.

Dr. King's Legacy -- Martin Luther King Jr., National Historic Site -- The King Center -- Dr. King's Birth Home -- Dr. and Mrs. King's Burial Crypts -- The Eternal Flame -- Ebenezer Baptist Church -- Martin Luther King Jr., National Holiday -- Dr. King Commemorative Stamp -- Posthumous Awards & Recognition -- Streets Named for King -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial -- Tributes to King -- Conclusion -- Author's Note -- Author's Bio -- Bibliography -- Timeline -- Glossary.