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Martin Luther King, Jr. Usage on el.wikipedia.org Μάρτιν Λούθερ Κινγκ; Usage on eo.wikipedia.org Martin Luther King; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Martin Luther King; Usage on es.wikisource.org Autor:Martin Luther King; Usage on et.wikipedia.org Martin Luther King; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org Martin Luther King; Usage on ext ...
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 Arkansas: it was known as "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and Robert E. Lee's Birthday" from 1985 to 2017. Legislation in March 2017 changed the name of the state holiday to "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday" and moved the commemoration of Lee to October. In Idaho: "Martin Luther King Jr.–Idaho Human Rights Day". [28]
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
The city's previous central library, in Mount Vernon Square, was donated by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and dedicated in 1903.. A 1961 Booz Allen Hamilton report sponsored by the city government found that the library had become inadequate in size and technology, was located in what was now the city's "worst slum", and that "At any hour of the day or night, a collection of derelicts loaf ...
Funny how the article doesn't mention how Johnson turned against MLK after MLK denounced the Vietnam war. This photo seems almost prescient of that. Kaldari 19:11, 4 November 2009 (UTC) Support per nominator. Sufficient quality, high encyclopedic value in illustrating that section of LBJ article. And of course, it's interesting.
The show explores class division in the African American community and includes interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Cornel West, Nas, and Jesse Jackson as well as coverage of the Watts riots of 1965, the emergence of hip hop, The Cosby Show, the Rodney King beating, crack epidemic, Michael Jackson, Hurricane Katrina, and Black Lives Matter.
The Landmark for Peace is a memorial sculpture in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the northside of Indianapolis. It honors the contributions of the slain leaders Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The memorial, which features Kennedy and King reaching out to each other, was designed and executed by Indiana artist Greg Perry.