MLK, Jr. essays

MLK, Jr. essays Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He faced racism at an early age. When he started school Martin attended a colored school. From then on, he was not allowed to play with his best friends who were white. His mother hugged him and said, You are as good as anyone. He decided from then on he wanted things to be different. Martin never stopped thinking about how he could make the world a better place. He thought about being a doctor and helping people when they were sick, or a lawyer so he could help people when they were in trouble with the law. He finally decided to become a preacher like his father. Martin studied very hard in school. He loved books and hoped he could use powerful words to teach people to respect others. Martin studied so much so that he started college when he was only fifteen. Martin started college in 1944 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he majored in sociology. He skipped a year in college and graduated in 1948. King then entered Crozer Theological seminary. There Martin learned about Mohandas Gandhi, a man who showed the people of India peaceful ways to change the unjust laws of their government. Gandhi did not use violence. He began to think about ways to use his own preaching to teach others some of Gandhi's ideas. He graduated from Crozer in 1951, and entered Boston University as a doctorial student. It was there he earned the title, Doctor King. While living in Boston, he met his wife Corretta Scott. They were married on June 18, 1953. After receiving his doctorate at Boston University in 1955, he and Coretta moved to Montgomery, Alabama and became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. On December 1, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for being a Negro who refused to give up her seat to a white man. Many people in Montgomery felt that Mrs. Parks had not been treat ...