Mlk early life

Three important facts about martin luther king jr childhood

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, , in Atlanta, Georgia. The city was known as the “gateway to the South.”

When he was grown, he wrote that he came from a family “where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.” He could never remember his parents fighting. He grew up around people with deep religious beliefs and a great sense of human dignity. His father was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and his mother had been a teacher. Her father had been pastor of Ebenezer before his death. Martin had an older sister, Christine, and a younger brother, A.D.

Martin grew up during the Depression. It was a time when jobs were scarce and many struggled to make a living. His family wasn’t rich, but they were comfortable and had enough to eat. When he was just five years old, he asked his parents why so many people were standing in lines to get food. Later, when he was an adult

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The life of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Jan. Michael Luther King Jr., later renamed Martin, is born to lärare Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King in Atlanta, Ga.

King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a B.A.

Graduates with a B.D. from Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa.

June King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala. They will have four children: Yolanda Denise (b), Martin Luther King III (b), Dexter (b), Bernice Albertine (b).

Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools.
September: King moves to Montgomery, Ala., to preach at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

After coursework at New England colleges, King finishes his Ph.D. in systematic theology.
Bus bojkott launches in Montgomery, Ala., after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arreste

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Chapter 1: Early Years

April 17, – King Jr. travels to Dublin, Georgia, to deliver "The Negro and the Constitution" in oratory contest

I was born in the late twenties on the verge of the Great Depression, which was to spread its disastrous arms into every corner of this nation for over a decade. I was much too young to remember the beginning of this depression, but I do recall, when I was about five years of age, how I questioned my parents about the numerous people standing in breadlines. I can see the effects of this early childhood experience on my present anticapitalistic feelings.

My birthplace was Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the state and the so-called "gateway to the South." Atlanta is home for me. I was born on Auburn Avenue. Our church, Ebenezer Baptist, is on Auburn Avenue. I'm now co-pastor of that church, and my office in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is on Auburn Avenue.

I went through the public schools of Atlanta for a period, and then I