Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

On January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, a very influential mind was born (Marcelo and David B.). This person was Martin Luther King, Jr. As King grew older he began to realize his family's work. They had been part of a long line of pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Nobel Foundation). He began to realize what was going on in his very eventful life and recognized it as segregation.

He went to segregated middle schools in Georgia and then went on to high school. He was excelling exceedingly well, so they let him skip his ninth and twelfth grade school years. Astonishingly, he graduated at the age of fifteen. He went on to a prestigious African-American college called Morehouse College, which his father and grandfather attended and graduated from (Nobel Foundation). King graduated with a B.A. in Sociology. A few years later he decided to enroll in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Further education took place and in 1955 King received his Ph. D. from Boston University (Wikipedia). While in Boston, King met, and later married, Coretta Scott. She was unusually intelligent and had many different artistic accomplishments. Later, they would have two sons and two daughters (Nobel Foundation).

After graduating from B.U., King started to fight for a better world. He wanted equal rights to be extended to all people that reside within the United States of America.

In 1953, King became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, in Montgomery, Alabama at the young age of twenty-four.