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The Detroit Walk to Freedom, planned by Franklin and members of New Bethel, took place on June 23, 1963. The protest had 125,000 persons, was the largest civil rights demonstration in the country's history to that point, and culminated in a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at Cobo Hall. [11] [12] [13]
Clayton was a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the pastor. [6] Clayton was married to Ed Clayton (who also worked with Dr. King) [6] from 1957 until his death in 1966. She co-authored a revised edition of her late husband's biography of Martin Luther King Jr. that is titled The Peaceful Warrior.
It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. was co-pastor together with his sons Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 and A. D. King from 1968 until his death in 1969, the location of the funerals of both Dr. King and, in its later expanded sanctuary, congressman John Lewis, and the church for which United ...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s conception of what Black Americans had to overcome was shaped by visits to Detroit that began when he was a teenager.
[2] [3] In 1978 the official name was changed to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was pastor there and helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 during the civil rights era. The church is located steps away from the Alabama State Capitol.
His vision was to occupy land on Seven Mile near his church that was still vacant slightly more than a decade after the 1967 riots. Rev. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
On Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, hundreds gathered at a Detroit church just north of the New Center area for an annual rally and march honoring the late civil rights leader and his legacy.
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]