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Martin Luther King Jr.: African American Civil Rights Activist

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American, civil rights activist who believed that everyone was equal no matter what race they were. He was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King was a very kind and loving man to his wife and four children. King lived in a world where race determined who a person was and what they did. Racial discrimination was all over the place, but it was the worst in the South. King was a man of God, justice and freedom, and he wanted every man to be equal to another. ("Martin Luther King Jr." "Web")
King was born alongside his two other siblings, Christine King Farris, his older sister, and Alfred Daniel Williams, his younger brother. His parents were Alberta Williams King, his mother, and Martin Luther …show more content…

King Sr. became the next pastor after his father passed away in the year of 1931. He adopted the name Martin Luther after the German Protestant from the sixteenth century. Martin Luther King Sr. named his son after himself, hoping that his son could take the same position when his own time was up. At the age of five, Martin Luther King Jr. Was attending the local, public school, and was singing the local church gospels. Martin did very well in school, and always had a special love for the church. He would always go to the services on Wednesdays and …show more content…

There he studied the medical field and law. Martin was a very smart individual. In 1948, Martin achieved his degree in sociology. Martin was ready for a bigger challenge, so he went to the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Although Martin did well in his studies, he still had a little bit of fun while in college. Against his father 's rules, he began to go out and party with the other college students. He drank beers and played games like beer pong, which influenced the consumption of alcoholic drinks. He flirted with many girls while in college and even dated a white woman. At that time period, interracial dating was heavily frowned upon and Martin had a hard time trying to conceal their relationship from the world. Eventually, he gave up and had to break the relationship, as it was causing him too much trouble. ("Martin Luther King Jr." "Web"; History.com

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