Martin Luther King

was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the eldest son of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. His father was a preacher at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King, his older sister Christine and his younger brother Alfred Daniel grew up in a stable social circumstance. They spent their adolescence in great security. .
             At the age of 4, King had already taken part in his dad's parish by singing chants accompanied by his mother on the piano. He had a very religious upbringing. His family's close attachment to church influenced King strongly in his development. .
             King relished a good education. He was gifted and because of that he skipped the ninth and the twelfth grade of the "Booker T. Washington High School".
             At the age of fifteen he obtained the admission to the Morehouse College in Atlanta. At this point in time, he was not interested in becoming a pastor like his father; he hoped to become a doctor or a lawyer because he wanted to help people.
             The professors, such as George D. Kelsey and Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, changed King's mind about many things especially his future. At seventeen, King decided to become a pastor in order to better influence people in social changes and to promote Christian ideals.
             Martin preached for the first time in his father's church in 1946. His speech was a great success. On February 25, 1948 King was ordained at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Later in June 1948, he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College. He went on to study at the Crozer Theological Seminary, in Chester, Pennsylvania. During his first year in Chester, he concentrated on the New Testament of the Bible. In the following years, he was more interested in social and ethical questions of the human condition. King dealt with scripts of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Hobbes, Mill, and Locke. In 1949, he read Karl Marx, but did not agree with the theory of communism.