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KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-68). Inspired by the belief that love and peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr., became one of the outstanding black leaders in the United States. He aroused whites and blacks alike to protest rac ....

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.... in his fathers’ church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. He was the ~ledictorian of his class in 1951 and won a graduate fellowship. At Boston University he received a Ph. D. in theology in 1955. In Boston King met Coretta Scott. They were married in 1953 and had two sons, Martin Luther III and Dexter Scott, and two daughters, Yolanda Denise and Bernice Albertine. Civil-Rights Efforts King had been impressed by the teachings of Henry David Thoreau and Mahatma Gandhi on nonviolent resistance. King wrote, "I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound meth ....