A plaque outside the Crozer Theological Seminary Old Main building, part of the current Chester-Crozer Medical Center campus, memorializes the three years in which the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr ...

A young MLK Jr. spent a few formative years in the Philly area King studied at a now-defunct seminary near Chester from 1948 to 1951 and carried out an early act of civil disobedience in Maple Shade ...

Crozer Theological Seminary MLK, Jr. studied here beginning in 1948, where he was one of 11 black students. Ironically enough, transcripts show that he received C's in public speaking class while here ...

A plaque outside the Crozer Theological Seminary Old Main building, part of the current Chester-Crozer Medical Center campus, memorializes the three years in which the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr ...

King lived at the residence between 1949 and 1951, while he and a classmate were attending the now-closed Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., according to NJ.com.

Dr. King attended Morehouse College and eventually enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary to become a preacher, following in the footsteps of his father.

Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1948 at age 19, a few months before he moved north to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.

Friendships cued by the pool table King and Beshai had met at Crozer Theological Seminary in the late 1940s. Beshai remembers that of the 100 or so students, only seven were foreign or not white.

King graduated from Pennsylvania's Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 with a divinity degree. He got his Ph.D. in systematic theology at Boston University's graduate school in 1955.