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[5] [8] [9] [10] However, it is likely that the stress of his brother's high-profile activist work and the trauma of his assassination exacerbated A.D.'s heart problems (a rumor disclaimed by his wife Naomi Ruth Barber King), of which there was a family history: three of A.D.'s children later died of heart attacks—Alfred Jr. in 1986, Darlene ...
A.D. King died in July 1969. In January 2008, Naomi King received the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Rosa Parks Freedom Award. That same year, in May, she founded the A.D. King Foundation.
A.D. King died in July 1969. The couple supported Martin Luther King Jr., and his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement and were at his side during multiple historic events, including the 1963 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. (left), Henry Elkins (center), and Alberta Williams King (right) at Ebenezer, 1962 Alberta Christine Williams was born on September 13, 1904. [2] Her parents were Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, at the time preacher of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and Jennie Celeste (Parks) Williams. [3]
James Albert King (December 1864 – November 17, 1933) was the father of Martin Luther King Sr. and paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. , A. D.
On April 4, 1967, a Tuesday, Martin Luther King Jr. took the pulpit at New York’s Riverside Church, the great Gothic cathedral conceived by John D. Rockefeller Jr., to deliver a speech entitled ...
A. D. King, brother of Martin Luther King Jr., and a motel owned by A. G. Gaston, where King and others organizing the campaign had stayed. It is believed that the bombings were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan, in cooperation with Birmingham police.
Dexter Scott King, the lookalike of his iconic father, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 62. Dexter King died Sunday in California after a bout with prostate cancer, his ...