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Synopsis
Daddy King is the autobiography of one of the most remarkable Americans of our time. Martin Luther King, Sr., was born the second of nine children to sharecroppers in rural Stockbridge, Georgia, in 1899. His father was a spirited, tenacious man, and his mother a strong and loving woman. These qualities of his parents as well as his mother's ardent Christian faith sustained young Martin Luther King, Sr., through a difficult and impoverished childhood in the days when lynchings and beatings of blacks were common in the Georgia countryside.While still in his early teens, young King was ordained a minister because of the dynamism and power of his preaching. Soon after, Reverend King set out for Atlanta, where he held jobs from railroad fireman to truck driver while attending private high school (there were no public high schools for blacks in Atlanta in those days) and preaching at two or more churches a week.In 1926 Reverend King married Alberta Williams, daughter of the Reverend A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta's leading black congregation. Five years later Reverend King succeeded Reverend Williams as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta's leading black congregation. Five years later Reverend King succeeded Reverend Williams as pastor of Ebenezer, a position he was to hold for forty-four years. The King pastorate was an active one. Reverend King led voter registration drives in the mid-1930's two decades before the Civil Rights Movement was born. He championed the cause of Atlanta's black teachers in an eleven-year struggle to win equal pay with white teachers. Consistently over the decades Reverend King exercised his influence to further the well-being of black Atlantans. By the time of his son Martin Jr.'s charismatic ministry, Daddy King was a respected and influential elder statesman of the Civil RightsDaddy King is the moving and dramatic story not only of Reverend King but of the extraordinary King family. Their devotedness to each other, and in particular to Daddy King, as he is known everywhere, glows on every page of this book. At the same time, this very special autobiography is living history, documenting significant events of great tragedy and even greater triumph.
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- PublisherGibbs M. Smith Inc
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1588181502
- ISBN 13 9781588181503
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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