Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

Professor L. Harold DeWolf lectures at a meeting of the Dialectical Society; King offers the opening prayer.

The Kings host a meeting of a black graduate study group, the Dialectical Society, at their Boston apartment.

Boston University approves King’s outline of his dissertation.

King’s Boston University transcript indicates that he has passed his qualifying examinations.

King, Jr., reenters the first grade at Yonge Street Elementary School and after half a year advances to the second grade.

The Kings rent an apartment at 396 Northampton Street in Boston and resume their studies.

King, Jr., reveals to his first-grade teacher that he is only five years old and is expelled from school.

King, Jr., enters the first grade at Yonge Street Elementary School with his six-year-old sister, Christine.

King, Jr., enters nursery school.

King’s academic advisor at Boston University, Edgar S. Brightman, dies. King later chooses L. Harold DeWolf as his new advisor.