Martin Luther King, Jr. (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was formally ordained at the age of nineteen, in the church over which his father presided, thus officially beginning his public-speaking career. Within ten years, he had secured a position as pastor of a Montgomery, Alabama, church and had established himself as a civil rights leader by leading a boycott against the Montgomery public transportation system. After the successful conclusion of the boycott, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Council, in the hope of harnessing the momentum of the movement to further the cause of...
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