![]() It was the angriest I had ever been in my life. "That night will never leave my memory as long as I live. Martin was infuriated as he recalled, "I intended to stay right in my seat and protest," but his teacher convinced him to obey the law and they stood for the remainder of the 90-mile trip. One evening after taking top prize in a debate tournament, he and his teacher were riding home on the bus discussing the event when the driver ordered them to give up their seats for two white passengers who had just boarded. He skipped ninth and 12th grades, and excelled on the violin and as as a public speaker. As a teenager, Martin went through school with great distinction. Years later, Martin admitted that those cruel words altered the direction of his life. When he went to one of the boys' house, their mother met him at the front door and told him in a rude tone that her son would not be coming out to play with him that day or any other day because they were white and he was black. ![]() Two of his friends did not show up to play ball with him and Martin decided to go looking for them. For Martin the civil rights movement began one summer in 1935 when he was six years old. a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He was the son of Alberta Christine (Williams), a schoolteacher, and Martin Luther King Sr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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