One of Morehouse College’s most famous alums is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One of Morehouse College’s most famous alums is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the all-male Atlanta school in 1948.
After he left the school, King went on to become a husband, a Baptist preacher, a father, a world leader in the cause of social justice, a bane for racial inequity and its promoters and a champion for the cause of non-violent race discrimination resolution. King wrote, spoke, marched, sat-in and preached.
Throughout his work in the vanguard for civil rights, he was assaulted, jailed, rejected, praised, esteemed and rewarded, among other things.
His storied life is captured in a collection of over 10,000 artifacts that make up the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. collection.
Morehouse has been the steward of the collection since 2006, after a group of Atlanta business and civic leaders raised $32 million to purchase the materials just before they were to have gone up for auction at Sotheby’s.
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