8 Little Know Facts about Martin Luther King Jr

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1. King was born Michael, and loved ones called him Mike.
2. King wanted to marry a white cafeteria worker.
3. Picking tobacco revealed to him a more open society.
4. King was not the first black American leader to adopt Gandhian principles.
7. King attempted suicide as a young boy.