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QUEST for PEACE and JUSTICE We all would have wondered what would really have happened if Martin Luther King Jr. had not decided to do what he did. What did he do you may ask, well my friend he changed the face of history as we know it. You may wonder how this simple small town boy grew up and turned things around for his fellow Negroes. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15,1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. King graduated form high school when he was only 15. He then attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather he graduated college in 1948 that would have made him 19 years old. Martin also spent 3 years in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Penn., finishing with a Bachelors degree in ‘51. He went on to Boston Public for his PHD that he received in 1955. He became a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1960 he moved to Atlanta and joined his father and became co-pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. During the Civil Rights Movement King was asked to lead the first non-violent movement slash demonstration. A year later the supreme court declare segregation on buses unconstitutional During that year King was arrested s