Martin Luther King Research Paper

Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S and died April 4, 1968 Memphis, Tennessee. His original name was Michael King, Jr an American clergyman, a social activist as well as a prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights movements in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South as well as other parts of the United States. In 1957, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and in 1957, he helped found the Southern Leadership Conference as the first president. In 1964, Martin Luther King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation as well as racial discrimination through

His grandmother encouraged him with stories from the bible whereby he started to read as well as discussed the Christian scriptures. This was facilitated by the strong tradition in his family as both of his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist ministers. Martin Luther King attended Morehouse College whereby he was enthralled by the writings as well as the ideas of non-violent resistance of Henry David Thoreau. His father and Benjamin Mays the president of the college, a Baptist minister and an influential advocate of racial equality inspired him and he was ordained into the ministry in 1948. Through Martin Luther King, Black women took their personal experience of the divine as well as the promise of salvation into the public dominion to reform a corrupt moral order. Their theology began from a strong perspective that sought perfection in search of public transformation of the social order. After graduating, he continued his training at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and received his doctorate from Boston University school of Theology in 1955. Consequently, his Christian life was based on harnessing moral authority as well as the organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the significance of civil right reform. He took his ideas to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based on

His maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams and Jenny Parks, Williams and his paternal grandparents were James Albert and Delia King. He married Coretta Scott, the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurry Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953. The marriage ritual took place in the neighborhood of the Scott’s home in Marion, Alabama. During this ceremony, the Reverend King Sr performed the service with Mrs. Edythe Bagley, the sister of Coretta Scott King as maid of honor whereby Reverend A.D King the brother of Martin Luther King Jr as the best man. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King had four children, namely Yolanda Denise of November 17, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther III of October 23, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama, Dexter Scott on January 30, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia and Bernice Albertine on March 28, 1963, Atlanta,