A short but well detailed paper on Martin Luther King Junior!!!

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Dr King Was born in the afternoon of January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E. He was very active in the fight against discrimination of colored people. Martin Luther King, Jr. began his education at the Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Following Yonge School, he was enrolled in David T. Howard Elementary School. He also attended the Atlanta University Laboratory School and Booker T. Washington High School. Because of his high score on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. Washington. Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades, Dr. King entered Morehouse at the age of fifteen. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in Sociology. That fall, he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.

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While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. He also studied at Harvard University. His dissertation, "A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman," was completed in 1955, and the Ph. D. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology, was awarded on June 5, 1955.

Dr. King received several hundred awards for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. One of them included "Man Of The Year" by Time in 1963. He was also awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest man, the second American, and the third black man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Junior also published three books. In 1958 he published the book "Stride Toward Freedom" . Stride Toward...