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PORTFOLIO By : Sara Daniela Sierra Martínez FIRST WEEK Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) Was born Michael Luther King, Jr. , but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family s long tenure as pastors of the... More

PORTFOLIO By : Sara Daniela Sierra Martínez FIRST WEEK Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) Was born Michael Luther King, Jr. , but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family s long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B. D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, comple Less