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6 hours ago · Meet the Followers of Martin Luther King Jr. in the West Bank. July 6, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET. ... Section SR, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Advocating Peace in the West Bank.
4 days ago · The son of a Baptist pastor and Alberta Williams King, a church organist, Martin Luther King Jr. Born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta USA. His childhood was marked by racial segregation and religious influence (he was part of his church choir). In 1853 he married Coretta Scott. and they had four children: Yolanda, Martin Luther (III), Dexter and ...
4 days ago · Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. The family lived on Auburn Avenue, known as "Sweet Auburn," an area home to successful Black-owned businesses and churches.
5 days ago · Martin Luther King Jr. later celebrated Lawson not only as a crucial figure in the American nonviolent civil rights movement but as a leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world. King’s assassination in 1968 did not shake Lawson’s faith, instead his resolve seemed to be further strengthened.
5 days ago · Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on June 30, 1974, six years after he son was assassinated in Memphis. Marcus Wayne Chenault entered the church and shot...
1 day ago · They include Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., the National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign during the Civil Rights Movement, and a top lieutenant of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the late Dr. Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Robert S. Weiner, former White House spokesman, Sister Simone Campbell, a leading anti-poverty crusader in the American Catholic community, former White House presidential diarist Janis Kearney, renowned journalist and historian Herb ...
3 days ago · As a part of its Faith and Freedom Initiative, The Memorial Foundation, led by Harry Johnson, Sr., announced its upcoming King Conversations: Modern-Day Faith Leaders Advancing Social and Economic ...
