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Compare And Contrast Martin Luther King Jr. And Mark Twain

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Mark Twain are both very important people in the history of our country and the future of our literacy and freedom. Mark Twain was an author that was famous for classic American novels and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia. He was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Michael King Sr. stepped in as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church upon the death of his father-in-law in 1931. Later on, Michael Jr. would follow his father’s footsteps and adopt the name as well. Martin entered public school at age 5 and in May, 1936 he was baptized. 5 years later his grandmother, Jennie, died of a heart attack which caused young Martin to jump from a second story window attempting suicide with distraught of the news. King attended Booker T. Washington High School, where he skipped both ninth and eleventh grades, and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15, in 1944. 4 years later, he earned a sociology degree and attended the liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania where he was valedictorian of his class in 1951. Martin Luther King Jr. married Coretta Scott in June 1953 and had four children, Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice and became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama. He completed his Ph.D. and earned his degree in

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