My name is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. I went to Booker T. Washington High School. I was so smart that I skipped two grades in high school. I was known for being a gifted speaker and was part of the school's debate team. In my junior year, I won a speech contest in Dublin, Georgia. On my way back to Atlanta, I was forced to stand during the bus ride just because I was an African-American. It was so unfair, I was the angriest I'd have ever been.  

At the time in that part of the country, segregation or the separation of races in places like schools, buses, and restaurants was the law. I experienced racial prejudice from the time I was very young, which inspired me to dedicate my life to achieving equality and justice for Americans of all colors. 

At age 15 my freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta. I studied medicine and law but later decided to enter the ministry.

My dad was a preacher which inspired me to pursue the ministry. I learned from a young age about faith and standing up for what you believe in.  I was a member of the Baptist Church and decided to become a preacher after being inspired by ministers who were prepared to stand up for racial equality. On February 25, 1948, I became a Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement and an assistant pastor at my father's church in Atlanta, Georgia.

I attend graduate school at Boston University In Boston, I met Coratte Scott later and then married her and settled in Montgomery, Alabama 1953. We shared the same commitment to ending the racial system that we had both grown up under. The King family had been living in Montgomery for less than a year when the highly segregated city became the center of the great struggle for civil rights in America. 

On December 1, 1955, the modern civil rights movement began. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. When this happened the city of Montgomery placed its own law on the public transit system and downtown business owners chose me to be the protest’s leader and official spokesman. 

 On November 13th The supreme court made it illegal for buses to be divided by color.