Mar 4, 2018 · As a 15-year-old in high school, in 1944, King traveled by public bus with a schoolmate, Hiram Kendall, and their teacher Sarah Grace Bradley from Atlanta to Dublin, Georgia, about 140 miles...

Feb 8, 2021 · Dr. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and had already graduated from Booker T. Washington High School by the time he was just 15-years old. That same year, in 1944, he was accepted into Morehouse College, and in 1948, he graduated from there with a B.A. degree in Sociology.

Feb 13, 2017 · By the time he was a teenager, King felt humiliated by his father’s preaching style. His father led a Southern Baptist church, filled with whooping and clapping, which he felt fed into the minstrel caricatures that white people saw in them.

Jan 15, 2015 · Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in the United States on Jan. 19 this year, it was on Jan. 15, 1929, that Michael Luther King, Jr., was born.

Jan 3, 2023 · Martin Luther King, Jr., escorts African American children in Grenada, Mississippi as they go to school. The photo above was taken in Grenada, Mississippi, in 1966. At that time, hundreds of Black students were trying to attend schools that …

During my late teens I worked two summers (against my father's wishes—he never wanted my brother and me to work around white people because of the oppressive conditions) in a plant that hired both Negroes and whites.

Jan 17, 2022 · Martin Luther King Jr. spent two summers working on a farm in Simsbury and wrote five letters home to his parents in Georgia.

Jan 15, 2013 · To commemorate the birthday of this great American leader, we asked the Life in Perspective teen board for thoughts on making King’s dream a reality. — Shalaka Gole, California High School (San...

Jan 25, 2025 · Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. His most famous work is his “ I Have a Dream ” speech, delivered in 1963, in which he spoke of his dream of a United States that is void of segregation and racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr., led the civil rights movement in the United States. He used nonviolent, or peaceful, protest to try to get equal rights for African Americans. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. At age 15 he entered Morehouse College in Atlanta. He graduated in 1948.