Have you ever wondered about Martin Luther King Jr. childhood? His childhood played a big role in his older life too; it helped shape the man he became. The beliefs he had, the experiences he saw firsthand and the people around him growing up as a child invoked what he did as a man. To start off, when he was just fifteen years old, he spent a summer in Connecticut where he spent days harvesting tobacco. He used to send letters back home saying to his parents that he could go anywhere he wanted and sit where he wanted. He and his friends even ate at a fancy restaurant. After experiencing this, going back home was a “bitter pill”. This gave him an urge to serve society. M.L knew that it wasn’t fair to be treated different because of your color. …show more content…
The shoe salesman had asked him to move to the “colored” side of the store. He had told him that they were either going to buy shoes or they weren’t at all. As Martin got older and he understood segregation a little bit more, he experienced it firsthand when he was on a trip with his high school, representing at the statewide competition. King was on the bus when he and his teachers were ordered to give up their seats to white people. They had to stand in the bus aisle for a whole ninety-mile ride. He said he had never felt so angry in his life. After graduating high school and moving on to college, he majored in sociology, which included many courses focusing on racial issues. Martin chose this path as he had felt that he could help others better by being a lawyer. During his college time, he soon learned that cooperation between blacks and whites was possible, even down in the south. Learning more about this topic made M.L want to become a minister, so he could deepen his knowledge about theology. Around this time Martin met Coretta Scott and shortly after that, they got married. The newlywed couple decided to move down south