Martin Luther King On January 15,1929 Michael Luther King Jr., which was later changed to Martin, was born. His father Michael Luther King was a Baptist minister and his mother was a school teacher named Alberta King. In 1948 King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. with a Bachelor of Arts. After King’s successful campaign to achieve the desegregation of public facilities in Birmington, Alabama in 1965, he concentrated most of his time and efforts on the voter-registration drive in Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama in March 1963. King inspired and planned the poor peoples campaign, a march on Washington DC, in 1968 to show the relationshi