Calvary Baptist Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)
Calvary Baptist Church is a Baptist Church founded in 1879 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Calvary Baptist Church in 2018
Pennsylvania historical marker in front of Calvary Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.
King in 1964
King's childhood home in Atlanta
The high school that King attended was named after African-American educator Booker T. Washington.
King received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 (pictured in 2009).