Louis c kung biography of martin luther

Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the s and s.

Early Life and Education,

Family, church, and education shaped King&#;s life from an early age.

He was born Michael Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on January 15, , to Alberta Williams and Michael Luther King Sr. In , after visiting Europe, Michael King Sr. changed his and his son&#;s name in honor of the sixteenth-century German church reformer Martin Luther.

King spent his early years in the family home at Auburn Avenue, about a block from Ebenezer Baptist Church. His maternal grandfather, A. D. Williams, was pastor at Ebenezer from until After Williams&#;s death, the elder King succeeded his father-in-law at the pulpit.

King was educated in Atlanta, graduating from Booker T.

Washington High School in He then enrolled at Morehouse College, whe