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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]
James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
King reportedly donated the prize money, amounting to $53,123, to support the civil rights movement. He was named after Protestant reformer Martin Luther. King was born Michael King Jr. on Jan. 15 ...
In Arizona: "Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day". [27] 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.
Martin Luther King Jr. poses for a mug shot at a police station in Montgomery, Alabama, following his arrest on February 21, 1956, for directing a city-wide boycott of segregated buses.
Martin Luther King III holds his daughter, Yolanda Renee King, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Monument on Sunday, January 20, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
Delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C. Civil Rights March. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement, was an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, and advocated for using nonviolent resistance, inspired by ...
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King waves to supporters Aug. 28, 1963, on the Mall in Washington, D.C., during the "March on Washington," where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.