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          Martin Luther King, Jr. Biography

          Introduction

          The reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential and inspirational Civil Rights leaders in American history.

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          5. Born in 1929, King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and then from the Crozer Theological Seminary with a Bachelor's in Divinity in 1951. He received a Ph.D in Systematic theology in 1955 from Boston University.

          Standing with Rosa Parks

          In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama where he led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus.

          The boycott lasted 381 days and resulted in King being arrested. Despite his arrest, the boycott ultimately resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing discrimination on intrastate buses.

          Perfecting the Peaceful Protest

          After the boycott, King helped in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which advocated the peaceful prot