Martin Luther skipped both the 9th and 11th grade in high school, soon after he attended Morehouse college at the age of 15. While being away from home he grew distant from his religious views, but his junior year of college, he started taking a bible …show more content…
Claudette Colvin was arrested and taken to jail. At first, the local chapter of the NAACP felt they had a great test case to challenge Montgomery's segregated bus policy. But then they discovered that she was with child and civil rights leaders feared this would scandalize the black community and make Colvin less credible in the eyes of whites.” Then, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on the Montgomery City bus and was immediately arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. “Soon after Rosa Parks was arrested, E.D. Nixon met up with Martin Luther King Jr. and many other local civil rights leaders to plan a bus boycott. Martin was elected to lead the boycott because he was young, and well trained and had professional standing. He was new to the community and had few enemies, so it was felt he would have strong relations with the black community.” King also gave his first public speech about racial