Youth Council. Later that year, Martin Luther King gives his first trial sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church. A few months later, Martin Luther King is ordained and appointed assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church. In June of 1948, Martin Luther King receives his Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Sociology from Morehouse College. After he graduated, he decided to enroll at Crozer Theological Seminary. In 1950, Martin Luther King was elected president of the student body at Crozer. Also in 1950, Martin Luther King goes to Queens, New York to serve as a student pastor at the First Baptist Church. That December Martin Luther King is accepted as a student in the Post-Graduate School of the Faculty of Divinity at Edinburg University. In May of 1951, Martin Luther King graduates from Crozer with a bachelor of divinity degree. That summer, he served as pastor in charge at Ebenezer Baptist Church. On June 18, 1953, Martin Luther King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama. A few years later on June 5, 1955, Martin Luther King receives a Ph.D. degree in Systematic Theology from Boston University. A couple of months after that trouble arise. On December 5, 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott is started, and Martin Luther King is unanimously elected President of the Montgomery Improvement Association. After this day, Martin Luther King would begin to go public on a routine basis, to make people aware of the Civil Rights movement. The next year someone throws a bomb onto Martin Luther King’s porch, at his home in Montgomery Alabama. Mrs. King, the baby, and a friend were all at the house, luckily no one was injured. On February 18, 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King is featured on the cover of Time magazine, for his efforts towards the civil rights movement. In September of 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King publishes his first book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. This would be the first of many books that King will publis...
