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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the Sweet Auburn district. His boyhood home is only several blocks from the now famous Ebenezer Baptist Church where he would eventually co-pastor with Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King).

King studied sociology at Morehouse College in Atlanta (entering at age 15!), his father and grandfather's alma mater, then later attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Divinity. He completed doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. He was also awarded at least 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the United States as well as several foreign countries.

During his studies, he was exposed to the concept of nonviolent protest which had been successfully employed by Mahatma Ghandi in resisting British rule in India. He and his wife, Coretta, spent a month in 1959 in India studying Ghandi's methods as the guests of Prime Minister Jawaharal Nehru.

Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice Albertine have all followed in their father's footsteps as civil rights activists. I was privileged to hear his youngest, Bernice, speak at an event here in Columbia, Missouri, two years ago.

[From biographies at The King Center site and Wikipedia.]

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