Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels

King delivers a trial sermon at First Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

King leaves Montgomery to attend a session of the National Baptist Convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his parents. 

King leaves Boston for vacation in Atlanta.

King preaches at the Reverend J. L. Henry’s Tenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.

King preaches at the Reverend J. Timothy Boddie’s New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

King attends the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention in Miami. The Reverend J. H. Jackson, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, is elected president of the convention.

King, Sr., performs the marriage ceremony of King, Jr., and Coretta Scott at the Scott home near Marion, Alabama.

King speaks at First United Baptist Church in Lowell, Massachusetts, at the invitation of its pastor, the Reverend Otto R. Loverude. King gives a talk on “What it means to be a Negro in the Deep South” and preaches the sermon “What Does It Mean to Believe in God?”

King preaches at John Street Baptist Church in Worcester, Massachusetts.

King, Jr., attends his parents’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration in Atlanta.