Martin Luther King Jr.(January 15,1929-April 4,1968) ​Accomplishments
At the age of fiften Luther graduated high school he recived the B.A degree from Morehouse College. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. Then at the age of thirty five,Martin Luther King Jr was the youngest man to have recieved the Noble Peice Prize.Once he found out about this he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the futherance of the civil rights movement.
Family
Martin Luther was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, and Jenny Parks Williams. His paternal grandparents, James Albert and Delia King, were sharecroppers on a farm in Stockbridge, Georgia.
He married the former Coretta Scott, younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953.They had four children.Yolanda Denise - November 17, 1955 Martin Luther III - October 23, 1957 Dexter Scott - January 30, 1961 Bernice Albertine - March 28, 1963 HIIIII.
​Accomplishments
At the age of fiften Luther graduated high school he recived the B.A degree from Morehouse College. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. Then at the age of thirty five,Martin Luther King Jr was the youngest man to have recieved the Noble Peice Prize.Once he found out about this he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the futherance of the civil rights movement.
Family
Martin Luther was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, and Jenny Parks Williams. His paternal grandparents, James Albert and Delia King, were sharecroppers on a farm in Stockbridge, Georgia.
He married the former Coretta Scott, younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953.They had four children.Yolanda Denise - November 17, 1955 Martin Luther III - October 23, 1957 Dexter Scott - January 30, 1961 Bernice Albertine - March 28, 1963 HIIIII.