Martin Luther King
Date Submitted: 02/08/2003 14:30:07
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (351 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 1 pages (351 words)
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1929. He graduated from Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and he got a Ph.D at Boston University. The son of the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, King was ordained in 1947 and became minister of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1953 Martin Luther King married Coretta Scott at her parents home in Alabama. In 1955 he led the boycott by Montgomery blacks against …
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…was shot and killed by an assassin’s bullet on the balcony of the motel where he was staying. James Earl Ray was later convicted of his murder. On April 9 in Atlanta, Abernathy officiated at King’s funeral service in Ebenezer Baptist Church, before a tightly packed congregation of 800 people.
On his crypt are carved the words he quoted many times, Free at last, free at last, Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.
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