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Martin Luther King Research Paper

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia in the American South. His real name was Michael, like his father. Daddy King changed his first name and his son’s name to Martin. Martin Luther was the name of a great religious leader in Germany in the 1500s. Religion was very important in King’s early life. He went to church after school and all day on Sundays. At fifteen, King began studying at Morehouse College and there decided to become a preacher. He was a great preacher. He traveled around the country preaching freedom of black people. King’s opinions about white people changed as he grew up and changed even more after he learned about the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi has taught that we have to love our

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