Martin Luther King Jr. was from Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised in a Black neighborhood along Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, a historic center of African American business, culture, and church life. His birth home at 501 Auburn Avenue NE later became part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park because of its importance in his early life.

Growing up in Atlanta shaped his perspective on segregation, racial injustice, and the power of the Black church, which all strongly influenced his later leadership in the civil rights movement.