Six years after the founding of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, the metro Atlanta area council opened its doors, and it’s been providing youth opportunities in citizenship, leadership and values. One of those youth exemplified the embodiment of the Boy Scout pledge was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a member of a metro-Atlanta Scouting program at Ebenezer Baptist Church downtown. According to its website, “the Atlanta Area Council has been here as the foundation behind every Scouting experience in metro-Atlanta.