tand 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.
             At Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, Rev. King studied the writings and teachings of many philosophers, such as Hegel and Kant, but the person that impressed him the most was Mohandas Gandhi, and he believed in nonviolent protest.
             On June 18, 1953, Rev. King married Coretta Scott, a young girl from Marion, Alabama. The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scott's home in Marion. The reverend King, Sr., performed the service, with only a few attending. The Kings had four children, Yolanda Denise King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice Albertine King.
             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.
             On December 1, 1955, Dr. Martin Luther King launched his first big test of his new philosophy that h
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