Martin Luther King: His Educational Development

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.  It was evident from an early age that Dr. King was bright.  He began his education at the age of five, a year before the legal age to attend school.  After his age was discovered, he was not allowed to re-enter school until he was six.  In high school he skipped both ninth and twelfth grade and at the age of fifteen, he left high school and began attending Morehouse College.  In 1948, he received a B.A. in Sociology and enrolled at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.  While at Crozer, he was president of his senior class, he won the Peral Plafkner Award for the most outstanding student, and received his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.  In the same year, he entered the doctoral studies program in Systematic Theology at Boston University and he also completed some of his studies at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. in 1955.