The College President Who Saw the Fifteen-Year-Old Preacher
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had skipped two grades and wasn't even sure he wanted to be a minister. His father was a preacher. His grandfather was a preacher. But young Martin wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer, anything but another predictable King behind a pulpit.…
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