Martin Luther King, Jr.

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had urged. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. And he received a bachelor of divinity in 1951. King first became aquatinted with Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians. He found himself increasingly dissatisfied with society. King was elected president of the student body and was graduated with highest academic average in his class. From Crozer he went to Boston University. He was seeking a firm foundation for his own theological and ethical inclinations; he began to focus his attention on conceptions of the relationship of man to God. King himself conceived of God as an active, personal entity, faith in God's guidance was the essential thing.
While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. They were married in 1953 and had four children. King had been a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in ...

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victory. One year and a few weeks later, the blacks of Montgomery achieved their goal of desegregation of the city's buses.
Recognizing the needs for a mass movement to capitalize on the successful Montgomery action, King set about organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gave him a base of operation throughout the South, as well as a national platform from which to speak. King lectured in all parts of the country, discussed problems of blacks with civil rights and religious leaders at home and abroad, visited Ghana and India, and conferred with heads of state. In February 1959 he and his party were warmly received by India's Prime Minister ...

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