He was born on January 15th, 1929, to Alberta Christine Williams and Martin Luther King, Sr. ... Williams (Alberta's father) at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. After 37 years of pastoring, Reverend Williams died of a heart attack, passing the pastorship onto Martin Luther King, Sr. ... Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse, played a mentor's role in King's life. ... King was shot April 4th, 1968 while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. ...

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"A Trip to Coontown" was the name of the play and it was a good starting block for black women. ... Bert Williams and George Nash Walker made a musical play by the name of "In Dahomey" in 1902. ... First it all began with theater and plays and then elevated to Jazz in New Orleans. ... They then added music together with the plays to make Black musical theater. ... Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles were a black face comedy act that started at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

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Famous African-American men such as Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, Wesley Snipes, Blair Underwood, Christopher Darden, and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume have also been stopped by police, allegedly for no other reason than the color of their skin. ... For instance, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the state police superintendent; Carl Williams for saying that while he did not condone racial profiling, minorities were responsible for most of the country's illegal drug trade (Cannon 72). ... There are actually many contexts in which the law properly forbids us from...

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