... was only five years old his father changed both their names after the Protestant reformer. King grew up with equality in his blood. His grandfather was Rev. A.D Williams. In 1906, along with W.E.B Du Bois, Williams helped create the Georgia Equal Rights League; a civil rights group formed to stop lynching and segregation (Garrow). Since King was exposed to the Du Bois style of ... the civil rights movement this could be the reason for trying to get the white people to help his cause. In 1917 Williams formed the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. King's father was also involved in the civil r...

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... was only five years old his father changed both their names after the Protestant reformer. King grew up with equality in his blood. His grandfather was Rev. A.D Williams. In 1906, along with W.E.B Du Bois, Williams helped create the Georgia Equal Rights League; a civil rights group formed to stop lynching and segregation (Garrow). Since King was exposed to the Du Bois style of ... the civil rights movement this could be the reason for trying to get the white people to help his cause. In 1917 Williams formed the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. King's father was also involved in the civil r...

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... - by any means necessary." (Breitman, George, ed. Malcolm X Speaks, p. 135) Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in a middle-class family and was greatly influenced by his father. The prominent minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church at Atlanta's Auburn Avenue ... the action of using passive resistance in Chicago, King was physically assaulted. Still he remained dedicated to the use of non-violence. King would see his last days in Memphis, Tennessee. He went to hel...

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