Martin Luther King Speech Analysis

Before all he did before the marches the speeches the threats aimed at him he was a child. Martin Luther king had two siblings older sister Willie Christine King and a younger brother Alfred Daniel Williams King. King’s father regularly ripped him till he teenage years but it was not unheard of. King’s mother took him to sing in church choir since she was an accomplished organist and choir leader.When King was younger he befriended a white boy but they were torn apart when the boy’s father put him in a public school. King suffered from depression throughout much of his life in his adolescent years he felt resentment against whites due to the "racial humiliation" that he, his family, and his neighbors often had to endure in the South. At the age of 12 shortly after his grandmother died …show more content…
Due to this Morehouse was eager to fill its classrooms. At the age of 15 King passed an exam and entered Morehouse. The summer before his last year at Morehouse the 18-year-old King chose to enter the ministry. He had concluded that the church offered the most assuring way to answer "an inner urge to serve humanity". King believed he would be a "rational" minister with a respectful force for ideas even social protest.

In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a B.A. in sociology and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, he graduated with a B.Div. degree in 1951.While attending Crozer King was joined by Walter McCall a former classmate at Morehouse. At Crozer King was elected president of the student body.King married Coretta Scott on June 18, 1953 on the lawn of her parents house in her hometown of Heiberger Alabama he was 24 and she was 26. They became the parents of four children At age 25 in 1954, King was called as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in