Martin Luther King was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta., was a pastor and his mother Alberta Williams King was the daughter of a previous pastor of the same church. When he was growing up he was a very smart boy and excellent student. His classmates nicknamed him Mike. He has an older sister named Christine and a younger brother named A. D., who he attended an all black school with. Martin Luther king enjoyed listening to many preached his father would tell him and his friends would often come over and listen as well. When king was in high school he skipped 9th grade then later on skipped 12th grade. He graduated at the young age of 15. He then entered Atlanta's Morehouse College. At the end of his junior year his decision was to pursue to be a minister. In the year of 1948, King was ordained a minister. In September of that year at Crozer Theological Seminary he started his 3-year bachelor of divinity program. He was very well!.

             liked that his fellow students elected him student body president. King graduated in 1951 from crozer and was the class valedictorian. At the age of 22 he began his doctoral studies at Boston University School of Theology. Half way through his year in Boston, King met an Alabama Woman named Coretta Scott. Coretta studied at New England's conservatory of Music. Two years after they met on June of 1953, Coretta Married Martin Luther King in Alabama. In November of 1955 Coretta had a daughter named Yolanda. She was the first of their 4 children. Earlier that year in June Boston University awarded King with the Ph.D. On December 5, 1955, the City's drafted King to be a president and principal spokesperson for the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association). This was formed to steer a boycott of the city's buses. A little over 11 months, the MIA came to a halt after its yearlong boycott. They had successfully achieved racially equal seating. King's role in the boycott bro!.