Martin Luther King
by Daniel 4th Period
1. Was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin.
2. Was born January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968.In Atlanta,Georgia
2.1. Was african american
3. A Baptist minister,[2] King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president
4. He skipped ninth and twelfth grade, and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.
5. He graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology,[8] and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.
6. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
7. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.
