Martin Luther King, was born on January 15, 1929 in the state Georgia, located in the USA. Martin grew up in a secure and good environment. He was very lucky to grow up in such an environment, because many people, especially black people, were not so fortunate. The main reason Martin grew up in such a good environment, was because his father, Martin Luther King, Sr, was a Baptist pastor. Therefore his family was more respected than others, and more wealthy. His father was also a missionary and the early leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. Martin entered public school at the age of 5. When Martin turned 12 his grandmother died of a heart attack. The event was so traumatic for Martin that he tried to kill himself by jumping out of a second story window. Later when Martin attended Booker T. Washington High School, he got great grades and he was told he was a precocious student. He was so good in fact, he skipped both ninth and eleventh grade, and he entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15. He was very popular student, and many girls liked him. When Martin finish the College, he went on working on his doctorate. He also met a girl, named Coretta Scott. She was a singer and a musician. They got married in June 1953, and together they had four children. Martin luther king III, Dexter, Scott and Bernice. In 1954 Martin became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He also completed his Ph.D and was awarded with his degree in 1955. By this time Martin was only 25 years old. Martin made himself popular when in 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks, refused to give her seat up to a white person on a bus. Rosa got arrested, and was guilty, and she was fined 10$ and 4$ for court fees. On the night Rosa got arrested E.D Nixon, head of the local NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) met with Martin. Together they planned to do a citywide bus boycott. Martin was elected as the leader of the boycott, because he was young, well trained and he had good family contacts. The boycott was very successful, and Martin planned, and did other demonstrations. But Martins demonstrations was different from other demonstrations. Martin believed in nonviolence demonstrations, and this got him very popular.
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