Martin Luther King Research Paper

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 , in Atlanta,GA . His father was a pastor , and his mother was a school teacher. He had two other siblings by the name Christine (his older sister) and Alfred Daniel (his younger brother). Martin engaged in racism VERY early. He had 2 white friends , their parents made them separate , because the color of their skin , and he was only 6 at the time. Martin Luther King Jr. was an very intelligent student. He graduated at the age 15 to Morehouse College. At the age of 18 he decided to become a minister at his father’s church. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After that he went to Chester,Pennsylvania and entered Crozer Theological Seminary . 1951 , he was the valedictorian

1953 they were married and had 4 children , Martin Luther King III , Dexter Scott , Yolanda Denise, and Bernice Albertine. December 1955,King had been chosen to be the head of the Montgomery Association. The Montgomery Improvement Association was formed by blacks that lead boycotts of the city buses.As the boycotts were going on,King’s home was bombed, through all of that he remained…….non-violent. In 1959, Martin became president of a group formed by civil-rights activities over in the south. The group was called SCLC or Southern Christian Leadership Conference,King inspired many. King studied Gandhi’s techniques on non-violent protests in India of 1959. In Atlanta in 1960 he had become a co-pastor at his father’s church.The year after that he had led the “nonviolent army” in Albany. 1963 King was in a event in Birmingham,Alabama, the goal of this event was to achieve the desegregation of many public facilities , during this he was arrested. During 1964 Mr.King had won the Nobel Peace Prize , he was the youngest person to ever receive one. 1965 in Selma,Alabama King had lead a drive to register black voters.the drive had violent resistance and that lead to a 5 day march from Selma,Alabama to