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. ... Their first child was Christine King, followed by Martin Luther King, Jr., and ending with Alfred Daniel Williams King III. ... King was shot April 4th, 1968 while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. ...

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(Williams, 221) Then he spoke of his family saying, "Freedom has never been free...I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. ... (Williams, 221) Medgar Evers's family always came first in his life, they meant everything to him and he meant everything to them. ... I remember one case when he put a witnesses in a casket, in conjunction with a mortuary, and got the person out of town, out of the state, across the border to Tennessee and then north." (Williams, 46) In the eleventh grade Medgar dropped out of school to enlist and fight in World War Two. ... -Medgar Eve...

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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). ... In 1917 Williams formed the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. ... At the age of thirty-nine, Martin Luther King was assented in 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. ...

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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). ... In 1917 Williams formed the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP. ... At the age of thirty-nine, Martin Luther King was assented in 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. ...

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Bert Williams and George Nash Walker made a musical play by the name of "In Dahomey" in 1902. ... 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). ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...

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• Grade Level: High School