Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Part I of Essay
was one of the principal leaders of the American Civil Rights movement and an important supporter of nonviolent protests. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of 15, King went to Morehouse College in Atlanta and graduated with a bachelor’s de ....

Part II of Essay
.... King met and married Coretta Scott in Boston. They had four children named Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice. In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black and white people made a positive impression on whites outside the south. To protest against discrimination, Kin ....