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Things I Didn’t Know About Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2011 By: Patricia

I just read the bio of Martin Luther King Jr. at the official website of the Nobel Prize, Nobelprize.org. Here are a few things I did not know:

1. His first name was Michael until he later had it changed it to Martin.

2. Martin graduated from high school at the age of fifteen.

3. He was nineteen when he received his B.A.

4. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times…and wrote five books.

5. When he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was the youngest man to have received the prize.

Most of us know about the I Have a Dream speech. Here are a few more places to find King’s thoughts and ideas in his own words:

Strength to Love (Sermans and Essays) (1963)

The Measure of a Man (Devotional Addresses) (1959)

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)

Why Can’t We Wait? (1963)

The Trumpet of Conscience (1968)

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Comments

  1. Rayna M. Iyer says

    February 6, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    Micheal Luther King- wonder if that would have had quite the same ring to it.
    Thanks for these awesome unknown facts.

  2. Jemi Fraser says

    January 17, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    I didn’t know he was born Michael! Intersting stuff. He has the most amazing quotes – powerful, powerful stuff.

  3. Jane Kennedy Sutton says

    January 17, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    Thanks for the facts. I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know about this man who shares my date of birth (except for the year). However, I get to celebrate on my actual day and not the Monday after! )

  4. Mary Vaughn says

    January 17, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    He was truly an awesome man.
    Thanks for the fact sheet.

  5. welcome to my world of poetry says

    January 17, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    I found this very interesting Patricia, we learn something new every day.

    Yvonne.

  6. sylviadickeysmithbooks says

    January 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Thanks, Pat. MLK stands tall in our history. Good to learn a little more about him.

  7. Patricia Stoltey says

    January 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks to Anne and Anonymous for adding to my list of little known facts. Now I’m beginning to wonder what we don’t know about other American heroes…could be a fun series.

  8. Hart Johnson says

    January 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm

    Love these extra facts! Thanks, Patricia. He was truly an amazing man.

  9. Anonymous says

    January 17, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Another great King speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” may be found at the American Rhetoric site: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence2.htm

  10. Anne R. Allen says

    January 17, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Thanks for this. I also learned from NPR this morning that he learned about the possibilities of racial equality working in the Connecticut tobacco fields when he was a teen. Since I grew up near those tobacco fields, and lots of my friends worked there, I found this fascinating. Made me proud to be from Connecticut.

  11. Angela FRS says

    January 17, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Most of this was new to me, too–thanks for posting this.

  12. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    January 17, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Thanks for sharing this information!

  13. Patricia Stoltey says

    January 17, 2011 at 11:34 am

    I’m more interested in reading biographies and autobiographies now than I ever was before. I’m constantly amazed at what I don’t know about the people who were so important during my lifetime. I guess I wasn’t paying attention.

  14. Clarissa Draper says

    January 17, 2011 at 10:40 am

    I didn’t know he was so smart! I mean, his words are genius but I didn’t know he was. Wonderful!
    CD

  15. Karen Walker says

    January 17, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Thanks for passing this info along. I didn’t know these things either.
    Karen

  16. E.J. Wesley says

    January 17, 2011 at 8:26 am

    Historically speaking, MLK, Jr. is one of my all-time favorite people. I don’t think anyone could have done more in such a short time. Every person, of every color, and of every background who has enjoyed the freedoms of our country over the last 40+ years is incredibly indebted to him.

    It’s great that we can take a day out of every year to honor him and his ideas.

    Thanks for sharing!

    EJ

  17. Margot Kinberg says

    January 17, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Patricia – Thanks for this interesting background! Amazing, isn’t it, how even with someone as famous as King was, there are things we don’t know.

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I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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