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Martin Luther King, Jr., was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but
ec his name changed to Martin. His grandfather
began the family's long tenure
of
the
__Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914
to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and
until
Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther
attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from
high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in
1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution
of Atlanta from which both his father
_had been graduated.
three years
of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in
Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a
white senior class, he was awarded the B. D. in
1951. With a fellowship won at
_he enrolled in
graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence
for the
in 1953 and receiving the degree
_1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta
Scott, a young
of uncommon
artistic attainments. Two sons and two
were born
into the family.