Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had my name changed to Martin. My grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; my father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death I acted as co-pastor. I attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; I received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both My father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where I was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, I enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing my residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 In Boston I met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.War Against the Third World Part 1
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