6 stamps, pen and ink, dark blue on chocolate matting
Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta, GA in 1929, graduated from Morehouse College – 1948, Crozer Theological Seminary 1951, received a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University in 1955, married Coretta Scott King while at Boston University in 1953, and had his first pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL. He had been in Montgomery only a year when Rosa Parks defied segregated seating on city buses. His organization of the bus boycott made him the leader of the civil rights movement. He studied the life and teaching of Mahatma Gandhi and further developed the doctrine of satyagraha (“holding to the truth”), or nonviolent civil disobedience. He organized the March on Washington and “subpoenaed the conscience of the nation before the judgement seat of morality.” He will forever be known for his incredible speech “I Have a Dream”
