King graduated with the highest gpa in his class in 1951 from Crozer. He then enrolled at Boston University as a doctoral student. While in Boston, he met Coretta, who would become his future wife.

In 1957 King and Ralph Abernathy were instrumental in founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of several groups King helped start. On January 14 that year, King's home and church in Montgomery were bombed.

Taken from Biography.com… Though always conscious of the possibility of death, King was steadfastly dedicated to nonviolence because of its power over violence. "Nonviolence can touch men where the law cannot reach them," he felt, because nonviolence allows the just consciences of the "great decent majority" of people to shine through, as Gandhi had demonstrated. He knew black people would have to suffer while adopting the role of nonviolence. "The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: `We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer!'"

It was to Ebenezer Baptist Church that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would return in 1960. As co-pastor with his father, "Daddy King", Dr. King, Jr. would preach about love, equality, and non-violence. In 1963, King became Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for his hard work and dedication.

On April 4, 1968, on the balcony outside a Memphis motel, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

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