g up in the mid 1900's. He went through the regular educational system. Until his junior year, Martin Luther King was always an above average student, but once his junior year hit he received excellent marks on his college entrance exams which granted him admittance to Morehouse College an entire year earlier that expected. Also, Martin Luther King was so above average in his earlier years that he also skipped the ninth grade entirely and became a freshman in college at the ripe age of fifteen. After receiving a Sociology degree from Morehouse, King decided to further his studies at the University of Pennsylvania. While attending classes in Chester, Pennsylvania, right near downtown Philadelphia, Martin became the senior class president and also earned the prestigious valedictorian. Previous to enrolling to continue his educational studies, Martin decided to follow some spiritual educating. Martin Luther King Jr. was ordained as a minister in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1948. Then 1951, Martin wished to complete his doctoral degree and so he continued his studies at Boston University. Now, since his doctoral program was underway, King decided it was time for him to become married to the love of his life. This young woman was to be Coretta Scott, whom he married two years later in 1953. Along with his studies at the University of North Carolina, King also took some classes at the prestigious Harvard University. After King had gone through his educational and spiritual training he was no ready to lead African Americans towards true equality and away from the societal views that plagued them on a daily basis. King soon began his unbelievable career as a full-time civil rights activist.
             King was successful early in his life as an activist by organizing and being a key player in the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted 381 days from 1955 and 1956. Following his involvement with this, he moved on to become the president, and founder, of t...