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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered
Shandta Lambert Staff Writer and Najma Osman A&E Editor
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday celebrates this life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. King is the only African American to have a national holiday in his honor.
King was born on Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King’s intelligence, and motivation allowed him to graduate at the age of 15. King received a scholarship to Morehouse College, and graduated with a B.A. in 1948. He continued on to receive his divinity degree from Crozier Theological Seminary in 1951, and earned a Ph.D from Boston University in 1955.
King was a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. He led a successful bus boycott in Montgomery that resulted in the integration of the bus system. The boycott also sparked a lot of controversy in America, and was the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. King successfully used non-violent efforts to help all people in need. King was a renowned orator, and his “I Have A Dream” speech brought 500,000 people to his march on Washington... more

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