Martin Luther King was born on 15th January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, a city in the south of the US. He was named after his father and the family (parents, grandmother and brother and sister) called him ML for short - a nickname that stuck with him all through his childhood.
Growing up with racism.
Every day, little things made it clear to him that to be black was to be a permanent second-class citizen. For instance, when he was only a little boy he was told to suddenly stop playing with his two white friends. Their mother sent him home explaining that they were getting too old to play with a black child. Martin's parents explained to him that he should never believe he was different and stupid, because he wasn't. Martin was still deeply hurt though and the children who had been happy to be his friends were set on the road to believing that all black people were different and inferior. …
