He graduated from Morehouse College at 19.
Let's not forget that in 1944, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was 15 years old and a junior in high school, he passed the admission exam and enrolled in Morehouse College. He was accepted into Morehouse College the following year, in 1944, and earned a B.A. in sociology there in 1948. He was only 19 years old which is one of the interesting facts about Martin Luther King Jr.This is important to remember as we honor Dr. King today for all the amazing things he did and stood for while on this world.
Before entering 1944 at Morehouse College, the alma mater of his father and maternal grandfather, King skipped grades nine and twelve due to his exceptional academic abilities. King did not want to pursue the family profession despite being the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Baptist preachers until Morehouse president Benjamin E. Mays, a renowned theologian, persuaded him to do so. Before earning a sociology degree from college, King was already ordained.
It continued after that. He was given a fellowship for graduate study in 1951, and he enrolled in Boston University's Ph.D. program. Dr. King obtained his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1955, when he was 26 years old. The notorious Rosa Parks was detained for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in the same year. The Montgomery bus boycott, which helped put an end to segregation on city buses, saw Dr. King rise to prominence swiftly. He established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, two years later, to advance the civil rights of Black people nationwide.
