Martin Luther King, Jr.- Mini Biography;

*Martin Luther King Jr. was born in January 15, 1929.

* He went to Booker T. Washington High School. But because of his high score on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from his high school.

*He married Coretta Scott, younger sister of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion. They had four children. And he got married June 18 1953.

* He was the pastor of Dexter Avenue from September 1954 to November 1959.

*The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.^[1].

^{*He was a Civil Rights leader.}

^{*He was a leader, he gave speeches.}

^{* He created a boycott, where all black people had to walk to work. they were boycotting against riding the bus.}

^*At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
* Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated. April 4 1968