Martin Luther King Sr.
(1897–1984)
BIRTH
December 19, 1897
PLACE
Stockbridge, Georgia
NAME
Michael King
DEATH
November 11, 1984
PLACE
Atlanta, Georgia
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Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
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Martin Luther King Sr., born Michael King, was Martin Luther King Jr.’s father, a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate in Atlanta.
EARLY LIFE
He succeeded his father-in-law as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1931 and supported voting rights, teachers’ equal pay and other civil rights efforts.
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DEATH
Martin Luther King Sr. served Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for 44 years and lived through the killings of his son Martin in 1968 and wife Alberta in 1974. He suffered from heart disease in his later years and died in Atlanta on November 11, 1984. He was buried beside Alberta in the South-View Cemetery crypt; the reviewed sources do not establish a precise immediate cause of death.
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