- Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta.
- His father was a preacher and his mother was a teacher.
- He had an older sister and a younger brother.
- He skipped two grades and went to Morehouse College at age 15.
- He earned a degree in sociology, then a degree in theology from Boston University.
- He was inspired by his father and other African American leaders who fought segregation.
- Segregation meant different races were kept separate and not given the same rights.
- He wanted to change laws that treated people unfairly based on race.
- He became a leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of his first major protests.
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