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Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Michael King Sr. and Alberta King. He graduated from Morehouse College at age 15 and became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. King was a leader of the American civil rights movement and helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. He went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for combating racial inequality through nonviolent civil disobedience.

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Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Michael King Sr. and Alberta King. He graduated from Morehouse College at age 15 and became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. King was a leader of the American civil rights movement and helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. He went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for combating racial inequality through nonviolent civil disobedience.

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Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Early Life:
King was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the second
of three children to Michael King and Alberta King (née Williams).

Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high
school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse
College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and
grandfather had graduated.

Major Accomplishment:
Family Life:
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the
King came from a comfortable middle-class Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery,
family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Alabama. 
Black ministry: both his father and maternal
grandfather were Baptist preachers. His parents In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern
were college-educated, and King’s father had Christian Leadership Conference, an organization
succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of the formed to provide new leadership for the now
prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. burgeoning civil rights movement.

Interesting Facts:

 Martin Luther King Jr. entered College at the Age of 15.


 Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest person at the time to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
 King’s 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Not His First at the Lincoln Memorial
  King Received His Doctorate in Systematic Theology

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