Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bio

         Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the middle child of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.King Jr. had an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. Dr. King was a great student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.King married  Coretta Scott , on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama.They had four kids together .King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in  Montgomery, Alabama, when he was twenty-five years old, in 1954. He led the 1955, Montgomery Bus Boycott  and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference  in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963, March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Information comes from http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-93650
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