In September 1935, Martin began his schooling at the all-black Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta.

Growing up as an African American in Georgia, Martin experienced and suffered much discrimination throughout his boyhood. This discrimination against black people was cruel and demoralizing. Martin Luther King Jr. told once of an experience he had riding a bus with his schoolteacher from Macon to Atlanta, "the driver started cursing us out and calling us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that we must obey the law. So we got up and stood in the aisle the whole 90 miles to Atlanta. It was a night I'll never forget. I don't think I have ever been so deeply angry in my life."1

There were many discriminatory laws in the South. They had certain restaurants that blacks were allowed to eat in, separate water fountains and separate bathrooms. Just abou

As the Civil Rights Movement rolled to intensity, Dr. King took upon himself duties of both punishment and responsibility for his cause. On January 26, 1956, he was arrested for the first time, for a traffic violation. On January 1957, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded with Dr. King chosen as president.

Martin was an extremely bright student and skipped right through his high school years and on June 1944 entered Atlanta's Negro Morehouse College at age 15. His father encouraged him to study ministry, while he had his heart set on medicine or law. Martin was embarrassed of his own religion. He didn't understand what all the shouting and stamping was all about. But after reading and rereading Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," he came to the conclusion that the only way he could bring about his ideas on social protest was through ministry.

In February 1948, Martin Luther King, Jr was ordained as a Baptist minister. After graduating from Morehouse College in June, he entered the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.

On January 30, 1961, Dexter Scott King was born. The year 1961 also saw intensified passive resistance by Dr. King and his followers. In May 1961, the "Freedom Riders" left Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The bus was burned by opponents of desegregation, and the riders wear beaten upon their arrival in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement began to receive government support by the newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy.

In October, l954, the reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church on Montgomery, Alabama. In June, 1955, Rev. King received his Ph.D. in theology from Boston University. On November 17, 1955, Yolanda Denise King, the King's first child, was born.

Also, on this same day, a black seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus and took a seat. This was a bold and brave move on her part, as Mrs. Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in segregated Montgomery, Alabama.

t everything you can think of was segregated -- black from white One of his first experiences was with the curtains that were used on the dining cars of trains to separate the whites from the blacks. This incident struck Martin pretty hard. He said, "I felt just as if a curtain had come down across my whole life. The insult of it I will never forget."2

The very next day, on April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

In March 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC began a voter registration campaign in Alabama. Civil rights protesters, attempting to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, were beaten by state patrolmen. In August 1965, the 1965 Voting Right Act was signed by President Johns

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