Dr. Martin Luther King: A Brief Summary

My past leader was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia to the parents of Alberta Williams King and martin Luther King Sr. Since most of his family members were preachers, he was a very religious person, which was the building block of him becoming a Baptiste minister. He was born to the parents of Alberta Williams king and martin Luther king sr. his mother was a very devout, and was deeply committed to her Christian faith. She instilled self-respect in all her children from the beginning. At a very young age Dr. King’s mother exposed the issue of segregation and injustice to him. She instilled in him that he should never let anyone let him feel that he was inferior to anyone.

King began to attend Morehouse College where his father and grandfather also attended. Because of his of his mother and father, Dr. King felt the urge to serve humanity. He began working with organizations that would expose the racial injustice. During his time at Morehouse College he began to have doubts about his religious knowledge. His studies of science and what he was taught in the church did not go hand in hand. It was an inner conflict he battled. After reading about two of his greatest influences in his life: Dr. Mays and Dr. George Kelsey he realized that these men although these men were deeply religious they also had deep knowledge of modern thinking. At the age of nineteen, Dr.King finished college and entered Crozer Theological Seminary. When Dr. King entered Crozer Theological Seminary, his quest to eradicate social injustice became more serious. He began to study social and ethical theories of philosophers from Plato and Aristotle, Rousseau, Hobbes, Bentham, Mill and

King met an attractive singer named Coretta Scott who later became his wife. In 1954, he became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist church at the age of twenty-five. He began taking an active part in social issues and encouraged members of the church to become members of the NAACP. He organized an action committee within the church as a way to help deal with the social, political and economic issues.
In 1955, after the Rosa Parks incident Dr. King led the campaign for the Montgomery bus boycott to abolish the racial segregation laws. As a result the U.S Supreme Court ruled out the racial segregation law as unconstitutional which ended all racial segregation laws on public buses.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created in the year 1957. The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform. Dr. King became the leader of the SCLC where he would his role as a social leader. With one of his inspirations being Mahatma Ghandi for his success in non-violence activism, Dr. King organized and directed non-violent marches and protest against segregation, labor rights, and the right to vote. These laws were later successfully enacted with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of