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The Reverend Michael King and his wife, Alberta, named their first son Michael Luther. Later,
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Reverend King did more than preach about civil rights. He put his words into action. In January 1935, the Reverend organized a protest against the segregation of elevators at the local county courthouse.
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he and several hundred others marched to Atlanta's city hall to demonstrate the political strength of African Americans. He believed his people could use their votes to change the laws and the lawmakers. Martin Luther King, Sr., was planting the seeds for a national civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., became a Baptist minister, and in June of that same year, he graduated from Morehouse with a bachelor's degree in sociology.
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the young reverend continued his studies in religion at Boston University. While in Boston, Martin met Coretta Scott, who was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Coretta and Martin married in Coretta's hometown of Marion, Alabama.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
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Rosa Parks, the secretary for the Montgomery NAACP, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus. In response, the Women's Political Council of Montgomery called on African Americans to boycott, or stop using, the city buses.
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the United States Supreme Court declared Montgomery's bus segregation laws unconstitutional. The next day, MIA members voted to end the boycott. When the Montgomery bus lines resumed full service, Martin Luther King, Jr., was among the first passengers on the newly integrated system.
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Dr. King and the SCLC began "People-to-People" campaigns to encourage African Americans to register to vote. He promoted his message of nonviolent change from Clarksdale, Mississippi, to Petersburg, Virginia, to Montgomery, Alabama. Meanwhile, many whites and even some African Americans tried to undermine his work. White officials in Albany, Georgia, put Dr. King in jail. Around the same time, Malcolm X, a leader in the African American Nation of Islam, was arguing that African Americans should
