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Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
In 2023, Eig published a biography of Martin Luther King Jr., King: A Life. Reviewing the book for The New York Times , Dwight Garner stated that it "supplants David J. Garrow 's 1986 biography Bearing the Cross as the definitive life of King".
A comprehensive new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, a memoir on family by the prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen and an exploration of the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s ...
Montgomery to Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his creation and leadership of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights and social and economic justice in the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met just once, a moment depicted in the series 'Genius: ... As Jonathan Eig’s biography King: A Life describes how the two amassed different followings, ...
At a moment when the personal lives of artists and celebrities are being placed under the spotlight as almost never before, the secret life of Martin Luther King Jr. now seems like more than the ...
Lawrence Dunbar Reddick (March 3, 1910 – August 2, 1995) was an African-American historian and professor who wrote the first biography of Martin Luther King Jr., strengthened major archives of African-American history resources at Atlanta University Center and the New York Public Library, and was fired by Alabama's state board of education for his support for student sit-ins at Alabama State ...
Martin Luther King Jr. visited St. Helena Island five times between 1964-67, using Penn Center — which began in 1862 as a school for freed slaves — as a retreat and place to plan.