There was once a great man named Martin L. King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Reverend Martin L. King Sr. and Alberta W. King. He had an older sister and a younger brother. He was a very smart man and therefore skipped the ninth and twelfth grade. Dr. King began college at the age of fifteen. He didn't graduate high school normally. He graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology, and then began working on another Bachelors Degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1951. Then, Dr. King met and married Coretta Scott King. They had four beautiful children: Yolanda, Martin III, Dexter, and Bernice King. Then Dr. King became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama; he was only twenty-five years of age. Dr. King was one of the first blacks to win a noble prize. He won it for trying to end racial segregation. Dr. King fought for blacks in the south. He had a lot of influences: Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Benjamin Mays, and Hosea Williams. He was a non-violent person and political activist. He was the leader of the civil rights movement. He helped Rosa Parks get released from jail. They both started the bus boycott. The bus boycott lasted for 385 days. Dr. King was a big part of it all. He and every person of color who did not ride the city buses made a big impact on the nation. The buses were separated, with whites in the front and blacks in the back. To pay their fare, blacks got on the front of the bus, paid their fare, then got off the bus, and went to the back and got on. Dr. King and other worked together to put a stop to this kind of activity. The bus boycott came into play and the bus companies started losing money. The federal courts ruled that the city's bus laws were unconstitutional. Next, after the bus boycott, the civil rights movement marched from Selma to Montgomery. Dr. and Mrs. King and Dr. Abernathy we