early Childhood
Michael Luther king Junior was born on Janurary 15, 1929. he was the second of three children at a young age his father changed his name with Michael to Martin. One of the first times Martin got told to leave because of his race, was when Martin and his family went to a shoe store, and the owner shooed them out the back exit.
Education
Martin and his siblings learned to play the piano from their mother and were guided by the spiritual teachings from their father and grandfather. Martin Luther King, Jr. began his education at the Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Following Yonge School, he was enrolled in David T. Howard Elementary School. He also attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and Booker T. Washington High School. Because of Martin's high college exam score on his Junior year of high school he advanced to Morehouse college without a formal graduation from Booker T. Washington. Skipping the Ninth and the twelfth grade Martin made it to Morehouse at the age of 15. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in Sociology. That fall, he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address; he won the Pearl Plafker Award for the most outstanding student; and he received the J. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951.