Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther king was an outstanding black American leader in the United States. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15,1929. His father was a pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His mother was a schoolteacher. Martin Luther King confronted racism at a young age. When he was six years old, he had two white friends and his friend's parents broke them up from being racism. At the age of eleven, a woman called him Niger. He knew that he wasn't the only black person getting treated like that because he saw the something happen to different people. So he wanted to make a difference in the country that everybody will be equal! In Decemb