Martin Luther King Sr.

Born

December 19, 1899

Died

November 11, 1984 (aged 84)

Known as

Christian minister, religious leader, parson

Martin Luther King, commonly known as Daddy King, was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and civil rights activist who was an early figure in the civil rights movement. He served as the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975, and was also the father of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and grandfather of a former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King III.

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