While there, he met Coretta Scott, a young woman from Perry County, Alabama, who was studying voice at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music. In 1951, King began course work for a doctorate at Boston University, where he studied various aspects of liberal Protestant theology and wrote a dissertation comparing the ideas of theologians Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. He graduated from Morehouse in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and began theological studies at Crozer Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. That same year he preached his first sermon at Ebenezer. King left grade school at 15 and entered Morehouse College, intending to follow his father into the ministry. As the son of a minister, King's early life was centered on activities at the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he sang in the choir. The younger King had one sister, Christine, and a brother, Alfred Daniel (A.D.)-the latter spent several years as a pastor at a Baptist church in western Birmingham. changed both his name and that of his son to Martin Luther to honor the leader of the Protestant Reformation. Following a trip to Europe in 1934, King Sr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott KingOriginally named Michael Luther, King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Michael Luther and Alberta Williams King.
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