Supreme Court, which ruled segregation on Montgomery buses unconstitutional. The initial demands of the MIA for a modified system of segregation on city buses evolved into a lawsuit that called for its total abolishment. The intimidation strengthened the resolve of the Black community. King and other MIA members were arrested. Throughout, whites in Montgomery tried to stymie it. He had not planned to take a leading role, but he agreed to serve. King was asked to head the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), a new organization formed to run the bus boycott. When this was successful, they agreed to extend the action. during Civil Rights MovementĪt the meeting Black leaders agreed on a one-day boycott. After some persuasion, however, he agreed. Although he supported the plan to boycott, King hesitated to become involved because of his existing commitments. They asked King if his church could be used as a meeting place to discuss the boycott. Community activists proposed a bus boycott in protest. She was arrested for violating a city segregation statute. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a respected member of Montgomery’s Black community, refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger when asked to do so. The Kings’ first child, Yolanda Denise, was born November 17, 1955. King was offered the position, and in 1954 he moved to Montgomery with Coretta. King desired a pulpit in a southern city but also wanted to escape Atlanta and gain independence from his father, so he arranged a trial sermon. Through a family friend he learned of a vacant position at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. When King refused to back down, his father relented, and on June 18, 1953, he performed the marriage ceremony at the Scott family home in rural Perry County, Alabama.ĭuring his last year of residential studies at Boston University, King sought employment while he finished his dissertation. King’s father preferred that his son marry an Atlanta woman and initially opposed King’s plans to marry Coretta. There he met his future wife, Coretta Scott. program in systematic theology at Boston University. The following September King enrolled in the Ph.D. ordained his son as a Baptist minister.Īfter graduating from Morehouse in June 1948, King studied for a divinity degree at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, and graduated in May 1951. He served as assistant to his father at Ebenezer while studying at Morehouse. He ultimately found the call to the ministry irresistible, however. King first considered studying medicine or law but decided to major in sociology. He then enrolled at Morehouse College, where Williams had studied. King was educated in Atlanta, graduating from Booker T. Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
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