He became a national celebrity following his public role during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. He married Coretta Scott, whom he met in Boston, they started a family, and he began his ministry in Montgomery, Alabama. King grew up in Georgia, the son of a well-known pastor, graduated from Morehouse College as a teenager and then studied theology in Pennsylvania before receiving a doctorate from Boston University. ( 1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and world-famous civil rights activist. INTRODUCTION King in the Birmingham city jail (University of Memphis Libraries) I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
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