“Hello, my name is Martin Luther King, Jr. I was born on January 15, 1929. My parents were Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. My mother was a teacher and she taught me to read before I started school. She also tried to explain prejudice and the Jim Crow laws that separated Whites and Blacks.”
Learning About Discrimination
I went to school at Booker T. Washington High School. I was part of the debate team and had to travel to a different school for the debates. I was sitting near the front of the bus with my teacher. We were both black. It was common for black people to sit in the back because Whites thought they were better than Blacks. We didn't realize the bus was filling up. The driver told us to go to the back, but we refused. The driver then cursed and threatened us, and only because my teacher was in tears, we moved to the back. I felt terrible, but this gave me determination to fight prejudice.
College
He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School when he was 15 years old. He went to Morehouse College in Atlanta, where his father went. Martin Luther king had many ideas for a job, but his final decision was to become a minister. At the age of 17, he gave he first sermon as a preacher. At age 18, I became a minister, and a year later I graduated from Morehouse College.
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