Do you know what young black boy grew up at the "y" would later on in his life win a Peace Prize? Or to even go on to deliver the now famous speech " I have a Dream"? That young "colored" boy grew up to be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civl-Rights leader. He once said that "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." And he was right.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the fifteenth of January 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother, who taught him to read before he went to school, was a school teacher. His father was a paster at a large church, founded by his father, called Ebenezer Baptist. Martin had a brother and a sister named Alfred and Christine. As a young...