Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Joanne Mattern
Non-fiction/ biography

The Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is great for the classroom. Children will not only be intrigued but able to connect to this story mainly because the author provides stories from Dr. King’s childhood that would be easy for students to relate too. Starting with Dr. King’s childhood, the story tells the readers about how he grew up and at only 6 years old he had his first racial encounter from his friends’ mother who was white. Dr. King was a very smart man, graduating at only 15 from high school; he went on to Boston to get his college education. There he met his wife and they married. He became a preacher like his father and little did Dr. King know he would grow up to be one of the most profound men of his time. He helped change unfair laws and game the African Americans of his time a reason to stand up for what was right.