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Prodigy and mischievous: little-known facts about Martin Luther King Jr.

On January 16, the United States honors the most prominent figure in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. His family and activists fought hard to win the national holiday in 1983, and it has been celebrated on the third Monday in January ever since. Washington Post.

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It's King's legacy memorial day. He campaigned for nonviolent civil rights resistance, won the Nobel Peace Prize, led a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama for black voting rights, and drew over a quarter of a million people to the National Mall in 1963 when he delivered his speech " I have a dream".

King, who was also the subject of an FBI surveillance and disinformation campaign and was killed at the age of 39 in 1968, is honored in cities around the world and his accomplishments are well known. But here are some lesser-known facts about his unique life.

His real name was not Martin.

Martin Luther King Jr. was named Michael when he was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929. His father, Martin Luther King Sr., pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, was also named Michael. However, in 1934 he made a trip to Germany, where in 1517 a monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle Church, starting the Protestant Reformation. King Sr., who was an early figure in the American civil rights movement, returned to the United States and quickly changed his name and that of his son when the young Martin was about 5 years old.

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When he was 28, King Jr. had his birth certificate redone. In 1957, he struck out the name Michael and replaced it with "Martin Luther Jr."

He skipped classes at school and went to college at 15

A child prodigy, King skipped at least two grades after graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta. Then he was admitted to nearby Morehouse College, a historically black male school that his father and grandfather had also attended.

“My college days were very exciting. There was a relaxed atmosphere in Morehouse. It was there that I had my first frank conversation about race,” he later wrote in his autobiography.

In 1948, when King was 19, he graduated from college and entered Crozer Theological Seminary, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He went on to study systematic theology and received his doctorate from Boston University. King was later awarded many honorary degrees from academic institutions around the world.

“Education should enable the sifting and weighing of evidence, distinguishing truth from falsehood, truth from unreality, and fact from fiction,” he wrote in a student newspaper in 1947.

He got a C for public speaking

Later known as a great public speaker, King struggled with a fear of public speaking and received a C for one of them.

He was a prankster as a child

In his youth, Kinga liked to play pranks. He tried to scare passers-by on the street by wearing his mother's fox furs on a stick and rustling the bushes. He also tried to drive his piano teacher away by causing the stool to collapse, and would occasionally break his older sister's doll heads to use as baseballs.

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King may have improvised "I have a dream" in his speech

One of the most important speeches in history was delivered in less than 18 minutes during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

But when King prepared a speech based on the Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the words of William Shakespeare, he did not include the famous refrain: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and put into practice the true meaning of their creed: “We take it for granted that all people are created equal."

According to reports, American singer Mahalia Jackson shouted during the performance, "Tell them about the dream, Martin," prompting King to use the now historic phrase he had spoken in previous public appearances.

His family paid the medical bills for the birth of actress Julia Roberts.

When the Hollywood actress was born 55 years ago in Smyrna, Georgia, King and his wife Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bills of her parents, Walter and Betty. The story only became known last year, when Roberts confirmed the fact in an interview with TV presenter Gail King.

“On the day you were born, who paid the hospital bill?” King asked Robert during HistoryTalks, a September event in Washington, D.C., produced by the History Channel and A&E Networks. “The King family paid the hospital bill,” Roberts responded. “My parents couldn’t pay for it.”

Roberts explained that her parents owned a theater school in Atlanta called "Actors and Writers Workshop" that the King children attended at a time when racial tensions remained high.

“Coretta Scott King called my mother one day and asked if her children could go to school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her children,” Roberts said. “My mother said: “Of course, come.” So they all became friends and helped us get out of a difficult situation.”

Her revelation drew online surprise and praise, including from King's youngest child, Bernice King.

Another assassination attempt took place ten years before his assassination.

In 1958, King was signing autographs at Blumstein's in Harlem when a well-dressed, bespectacled woman stepped out of line and yelled, "Is that Martin Luther King?"

King, then 29, looked up from signing copies of his memoir about the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and replied, "Yes, it is."

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The woman then pulled an ivory-handled letter opener from her purse and attacked King, plunging the 18-inch blade into his left chest, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

King was taken to the hospital for surgery. Doctors later told him that if he sneezed, a blade lodged near his aorta could have killed him. The attacker was Isola Ware Curry.

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