King called for a boycott of the bus company. Two years later, he was thrown into the national spotlight after Rosa Parks defied the South’s Jim Crow segregation lawby refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery. He also attended Crozier Theological Seminary and Boston University where he received a Ph.D.Īt 23, King became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. Young Martin skipped the 9th and 12th grades of high school and entered Morehouse College, at 15. Martin and his brother followed their father into the ministry. He had an older sister Christine and a younger brother Alfred Daniel. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Ga., to Martin Luther King and Alberta Williams. Today’s page celebrates the life of the great Civil Rights leader, Dr.
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