Mr King Speech Analysis

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Mr. king delivered a speech that only did it appeal to the African American/colored population, he gave a speech to the world. King, offspring of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King was the middle child. King spent his childhood in Atlanta and was put into a pubic school at the age of 5. King, due to his intelligence and ambition to be better, he skipped the 9th and 11th grade while enrolled at Booker T. Washington High School. He went and attend Morehouse College while being only 15 years old, in 1944 . he earned though his hard work a sociology degree from Morehouse College and went on to further his education at the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was so successful that he landed as valedictorian

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