Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating 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 . King then enrolled in a graduate program at Boston University , completing his coursework in 1953 and earning a doctorate in systematic theology two years later. Montgomery Bus Boycott The King family had been living in Montgomery for less than a year when the highly segregated city became the epicenter of the burgeoning struggle for civil rights in America, galvanized by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 By the time the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating...