In order for King to reach these amazing opportunities he had to study hard. He got a BA degree in Sociology at the age of nineteen. Got another BA in Divinity; qualifed him to become a pastor. Also received his Ph.D in Systemic Theology. He believed in a number of interrelated principles that served as the foundation of his social activism; including Christianity, non-violence and racial equality. He later on became the pastor of the dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montogomery, Alabama. On the night that Rosa Parks was arrested, E.D. Nixon, head of the local NAACP met with Martin Luther King Jr. and other local civil rights leaders to plan a citywide bus boycott.
