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Martin Luther King Jr. (Noble Peace Prize 1964) was born on January 15, 1929 as Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931. His father has served from then until the present and from 1960 until his death Martin acted as co-pastor.
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Martin Jr. was born in his maternal grandparents' large Victorian house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the second of three children and was first named Michael after his father. Both changed their names to Martin when the boy was still young.Martin's paternal grandfather, James Albert King, had been a sharecropper near the small town of Stockbridge, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Like most sharecroppers, he had worked hard and earned little. Martin King, Sr. was the second of ten children. He had left Stockbridge for Atlanta at the age of sixteen with nothing but a sixth-grade education and a pair of shoes.
In Atlanta he worked odd jobs and studied and slowly developed a reputation as a preacher. While preaching at two small churches outside of Atlanta, he met Alberta Christine Williams, his future wife, and King, Jr.'s mother. She was a graduate of Atlanta's Spelman College, had attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and had returned to Atlanta to teach. Her father, the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, presided over Atlanta's well-established Ebenezer Baptist Church.
When King, Sr. and Williams married, they moved into the Williams home on Auburn Avenue, the main street of Atlanta's African American business district. After some time had passed, her father asked King, Sr. to serve as assistant pastor at Ebenezer, which he did. When the senior pastor died of a heart attack in 1931, King, Sr. took over his duties.
King, Jr. and his siblings were born into a financially secure middle-class family and thus received better educations than the average child of their race. Martin's recognition of this undoubtedly influenced him in his decision to live a life of social protest, extending the opportunities he had enjoyed to all blacks. In his father, King had a model of courage: King, Sr. was involved in the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, and had led a successful campaign to equalize the salaries of white and black teachers in Atlanta.
As a child, King's encounters with racial discrimination were mild but formative. The first significant one came when he began school. White playmates of his were to attend a different elementary school from his, and once the year began, their parents no longer allowed King to come over and play. It was this instance of injustice that first led his mother to explain to him the history of slavery and segregation.
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Dr. King attended segregated public schools in Georgia where he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated.After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. 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.
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