Happy Birthday, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King!
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America’s most compelling
and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
After entering Morehouse College at age fifteen, King followed his father and grandfather into the Baptist ministry. He received a bachelor of divinity from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 and a Ph.D from Boston University in 1955.
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