Early Childhood
As a kid segregation almost aided Martin by making him want to work harder than whites, but it also made him hate segregation and injustice. As a very young and naive child, Martin would often play with his best friend who happened to be white. One day Martin walked up to his best friends door, but was instead rejected by the boys father only because Martin was black. Martin Luther King’s best friend’s father told him he could not play with his white son. After this event, Martin came to his mother and asked why he couldn't play with his white friend. Then his mother sadly explained to him the injustice of segregation. From then on Martin worked harder than everyone else in his class, earning top grades, to prove that blacks were as good as whites.
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education".
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education".
College Days
Later on in Martin’s school days he managed to go to college at the age of 15, he went to the same college his father went to, Morehouse College. Martin then graduated from Morehouse College with top grades, and eventually decided to become a preacher. So to study his new life pursuit he went to Crozer Seminary. He graduated from Crozer Seminary as the valedictorian he then went on to go to Boston University. There Martin earned his phD in theology. This lead to Martin’s philosophy of nonviolence, that changed the Civil Rights Movement.