wrote an entrance examination for Morehouse College. He was promptly accepted to the school, where he lived for four years as a pre-medical student. After attending Morehouse College, he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University where he graduated at the top of his class in 1951. In 1953, while in Boston, King met Coretta Scott. On June 18, 1953 the young couple were wed at Coretta's parents house in Alabama. Soon after the wedding King accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. In 1955 King's first child Yolanada Denise was born; later that year he received his PhD in systematic theology. Once King better understood the human mind, and became even more set in his belief of nonviolent action as a means of social change, he was ready to start on his path to changing the civil rights of blacks forever.
During the 1950s and 1960s there were many events that occurred as a result of the inequality that existed between blacks and whites. These events motivated King to change what was happening in the world around him, and he did. One of the first of these events was the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which occurred in 1955. When Rosa Parks, a forty-three year old black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she was arrested. This was not taken lightly in the black community and the following night, fifty leaders of the Negro community, including Martin Luther King Jr., organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would cost the bus company 65% of its income. The boycott also cost King a $500 fine, but it was worth it. Eight months later the Supreme Court decided the bus segregation violated the constitution. King gained national attention for his role in the campaign. After the success of the bus boycott, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was formed by King and other black ministers in 1957.
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