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Purple: connection to Christian teachings, values, or principles
Blue: demonstrating positive ways in building healthy relationships with others

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (originally named Micheal King, Jr.) was born on January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia to Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King.

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King entered Morehouse College in 1944 through a program that admitted promising high school students like himself. In Morehouse, King's mentor, the college president, Benjamin Mays, was fiercely committed to fighting racial inequality, something that left a mark on the young Martin Luther King Jr.

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As King was studying systematic theology at Boston University, he met Coretta Scott, who he would eventually marry in 1953.

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In 1954, King and his wife, Coretta Scott, relocated to Montgomery, Alabama became a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. In Montgomery, both King and his wife became noteworthy members of the civil rights movement.

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Following the events of the Rosa Parks incident, activists in Montgomery, Alabama created an association to boycott the Montgomery Transit System and chose King as their leader, allowing him to begin his journey in activism.

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King joined various civil rights leaders to organize the March on Washington, which lead to his historic "I have a Dream" speech. This resulted in the Civil Rights Act being passed in 1964, which outlawed discrimination in publicly owned facilities, as well as in employment.

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In 1964, King was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his astounding work in the civil right movement.

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Due to the immense amount of people that disagreed with King's views on segregation, after travelling to Memphis, Tennesee, King was unfortunately assassinated by James Earl Ray.