Early Life of Martin Luther

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the middle child of Michael king, Sr. and Alberta Williams king. The king family is made out of four kids, which are Yolanda Denise- King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice Albertine King. The King and Williams families were rooted in rural Georgia. After couple of years King family moved to Atlanta in 1893. In Atlanta Martin Luther took over the small, struggling Ebenezer Baptist church with almost 14 members and made it into a forceful gathering. While Martin Luther was growing up in Atlanta, he went to Booker T. Washington school. He was a very intelligent student who skipped the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at the age of fifteen without formally graduating high school. In the year 1948 King graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of arts degree in sociology. He also went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, in the state of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. Martin Luther King married Coretta Scott, on June 18 in the year 1953. Their wedding ceremony toke place on the lawn of her parents house which was in Heiberger, Alabama. They became the parents of four children: Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King.