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by Answerbag Staff on February 26th, 2011

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What was Martin Luther King's major in college?

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  • by Rebekah Richards on April 10th, 2011

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    Martin Luther King Jr. earned a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in 1948. In 1951, he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary. He earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Boston University in 1955.

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  • by Flutterby - The wise rule the strong on February 27th, 2011

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    In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. degree in Sociology. That fall, he enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address; he won the Pearl Plafker Award for the most outstanding student; and he received the J. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in 1951.

    In September of 1951, Martin Luther King began doctoral studies in Systematic Theology at Boston University. He also studied at Harvard University. His dissertation, "A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wieman," was completed in 1955, and the Ph.D. degree from Boston, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Systematic Theology, was awarded on June 5, 1955.


    In addition, Dr. King was awarded honorary degrees from numerous colleges and universities in the United States and several foreign countries. They include the following:

    1957
    Doctor of Humane Letters, Morehouse College
    Doctor of Laws, Howard University
    Doctor of Divinity, Chicago Theological Seminary

    1958
    Doctor of Laws, Morgan State College
    Doctor of Humanities, Central State College

    1959
    Doctor of Divinity, Boston University

    1961
    Doctor of Laws, Lincoln University
    Doctor of Laws, University of Bridgeport

    1962
    Doctor of Civil Laws, Bard College

    1963
    Doctor of Letters, Keuka College

    1964
    Doctor of Divinity, Wesleyan College
    Doctor of Laws, Jewish Theological Seminary
    Doctor of Laws, Yale University
    Doctor of Divinity, Springfield College

    1965
    Doctor of Laws, Hofstra University
    Doctor of Human Letters, Oberlin College
    Doctor of Social Science, Amsterdam Free University
    Doctor of Divinity, St. Peter's College

    1967
    Doctor of Civil Law, University of New Castle Upon Tyne
    Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

    http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html

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