Martin Luther King Jr. was 15 years old when he started college at Morehouse College in 1944.

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Martin Luther King Jr. enrolled at Morehouse as an early-admission student, having skipped grades in school, which allowed him to begin college unusually young at 15. He began his freshman year there in 1944 and later graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1948 at age 19. This early start in college placed him in an environment that helped shape his emerging views on faith, social justice, and nonviolence.

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