Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the second child of Martin Luther King, a pastor, and Alberta Williams King, a former schoolteacher.
Along with his older sister Christine and younger brother Alfred Daniel Williams, he grew up in the city’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home to some of the most famous and wealthy African Americans in the country.
Martin Luther King Jr said that his father regularly whipped him until he was 15. A neighbor once reported hearing Martin Luther King telling his son "he would make something of him even if he had to beat him to death." King saw his father's brave long fight against segregation, for example refusing to listen to a traffic policeman after being referred to as "boy," or him stalking out of a store with his Martin Luther King Jr after being told by a store clerk that they needed to go to the back of the store if they wanted any service.
All through his childhood, his father drilled the concept of racial equality and peace for all into his head. This would later lead to him joining the fight and become the leader of the civil rights movement.
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