Dr. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Dr. was an African American and both a Baptist minister and civil rights activist. He skipped ninth and eleventh grades, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15, in 1944. Dr. received the Nobel Prize in 1964, and several other honors. He had a great impact in race relationship in the United States and was considered as the most influential African American leader in history. The” Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written by Dr. King in 1963. The reason for this letter is because Martin Luther King was leading protest demonstrations against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama and then arrested for marching in the street of Alabama without a permit. There
