He was a member of several national and local boards of directors and served on the boards of trustees of several institutions and agencies. He was also vice president of the national Sunday School and Baptist Teaching Union Congress of the National Baptist Convention. He was a founder and president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1957 to 1968. He was arrested thirty times for his participation in civil rights activities. He was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization which was responsible for the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955 to 1956 (381 days).
King was a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement. From 1960 until his death in 1968, he was co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.ĭr. He was the pastor of Dexter Avenue from September 1954 to November 1959, when he resigned to move to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Upon completion of his studies at Boston University, he accepted the call of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama. Following his ordination, he became Assistant Pastor of Ebenezer.
Martin Luther King entered the Christian ministry and was ordained in February 1948 at the age of nineteen at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology, was awarded on June 5, 1955. His dissertation, A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman, was completed in 1955, and the Ph.D. In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. That fall, he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania where he was: elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address won the Pearl Plafker Award for the most outstanding student and received the J. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. King entered Morehouse at the age of fifteen. Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades, Dr. Because of his high score on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. He also attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and Booker T. Following Yonge School, he was enrolled in David T. began his education at the Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia.
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King, maid of honor, and the Reverend A.D. The Reverend King, Sr., performed the service, with Mrs. The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scotts' home in Marion. He married the former Coretta Scott, younger daughter of Obadiah, and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953. His paternal grandparents, James Albert and Delia King, were sharecroppers on a farm in Stockbridge, Georgia. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, and Jenny Parks Williams. Other children born to the Kings were Christine King Farris and the late Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. Charles Johnson was the attending physician. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.
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