Martin Luther King Jr. :: Biography

Martin Luther tycoon, Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at his habitation in Atlanta, Georgia. He was first named Michael Luther King Jr., and later changed his name to Martin, afterward his father. He was the first son and second child born to the high-flown Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King, a schoolteacher.Growing up as an African American in Georgia, Martin see and suffered discrimination through with(predicate)out his boyhood. This discrimination against black people was cruel and demoralizing. Martin Luther King Jr. told once of an experience he had riding a carriage with his schoolteacher from Macon to Atlanta, "the driver started cursing us out and traffic us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that we must obey the law. So we got up and stood in the aisle the hale 90 miles to Atlanta. It was a night Ill neer forget. I dont call back I have ever been so deep angry in my life."There were many discriminatory laws in the South. They had certain(prenominal) restaurants that they were allowed to eat in, separate water-fountains, separate bathrooms. Just about everything you can think of was segregated. One of his first experiences was with the curtains that were used on the dining cars of trains to separate the whites from the blacks. This concomitant struck King pretty hard, he said, "I felt undecomposed it as if a curtain had come down across my whole life. The insult of it I will never forget."King was an extremely glorious student and skipped right through his high school years and entered Atlantas blackness Morehouse College at age 15. His father encouraged him to study ministry, while he had his heart set on medicine or law. King was crushed of his own religion. He didnt understand what all the shouting and stamping was all about. tho after reading and rereading Thoreaus essay, "Civil Disobedience," he came to the conclusion that the o nly carriage he could bring about his ideas on social protest was through ministry.At Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, King studied the writings and teachings of many philosophers, such(prenominal) as Hegel and Kant, but the person that impressed him the most was Mohandas Gandhi, and his beliefs in a nonviolent protest.