On January 19th, 1929, in the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr., the man who would forever change the course of the civil rights movement for blacks in America, was born. On this day, the man who would incredibly change the lives of African Americans would come into life, and the process in which he would effect the major aspects of the movement would begin.
             Martin Luther King, Jr. had an extremely rough childhood, in which he witnessed many things that would later effect the way in which he handled his life.
             "I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality of the worst kind, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustices in the courts." (Martin Luther King 90)
             The things he saw and the things he experienced were eventually what caused him to strive for freedom for African Americans, and caused him to hate segregation. "I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the aggressive and barbaric acts that grew out of it." (Martin Luther King 90) King, although going through a lot as a young child, would fight through it all and eventually graduate from high school.
             One of the many incredible things that Martin Luther King, Jr. did in his life was he entered Morestown College at the age of fifteen. "King always had a talent as a student. He had an amazing will that would never let him give up." (Peck 18). He would later attend Boston College and receive a doctoral degree, something that many blacks did not do in his time. He then went on to Crozer Theological Seminary to study ministry. He eventually would become the minister of his church, just as his father had.
             During his studies at school and as a minister, two very important people came into Dr. King's life. One of these men was Ghandi. As Dr. King once said, "'If humanity is to progress, Ghandi is inescapable. He lived, ...