Martin luther king jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia,graduating from high school at the age of fifteen. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white seniorclass. He enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young womanof uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church inMontgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of ColoredPeople, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Colored People nonviolent demonstration of contemporarytimes in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21st, 1956, after the Supreme Courtof the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, colored people and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his homewas bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a colored people leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian LeadershipConference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from...
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