She would hang out and watch as he played pool and table tennis with his friends, he’d take her for drives, and even out for meals when his student budget would stretch.

Best of all, they would simply sit on a bench and talk, and talk, and sometimes kiss.

In the years before he became a civil rights leader, an icon who who would ultimately sacrifice his life for his ‘dream’ of equality, Dr Martin Luther King Jr was like most other 20-year-old college boys in 1949, trying to woo their girl.

Except, even then, King wasn’t really like every other college boy.

Even then, the passionate man dared to dream big. Because his girl, the legendary civil rights activist’s little-known first love, Betty Moitz, was white. Betty Moitz was a young art student who met Martin Luther King Jr as he studied to become a pastor, and became his girlfriend.