Born in Atlanta in 1929, Martin Luther King attended segregated schools in Georgia, graduating high school at age fifteen. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. After earning his BA from Morehouse College in 1948, King spent three years studying at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. At Crozer King won a fellowship and enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University where he met and married Coretta Scott and graduated in 1955. Always a strong worker for civil rights, in 1955 King accepted leadership of the first black nonviolent demonstration in the U.S.—a bus boycott lasting 382 days. King faced jail, bombing, and abuse as a leader of the boycott, but emerged as an irreplaceable leader in the movement. In 1957 King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide leadership for the burgeoning civil rights movement. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a manifesto of the black revolution, and over 250,000 people heard his "I Have a Dream" speech during the march for civil rights in Washington, D.C. At age 35 King became the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, turning over the $50,000 in prize money to further civil rights work. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis.