After the assassination of King, Jr., in April 1968, there was speculation that A. While there, King continued to fight for civil rights and was successful in a 1968 campaign for an open-housing ordinance. In 1965, King moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he became pastor at Zion Baptist Church. As one of his associates said, “Not being in the limelight never seemed to affect him but because he stayed in the background, many people never knew that he was deeply involved, too” (Johnson, “A Rights Activist”). was able to remain mostly outside of the media spotlight. was a staunch believer in the importance of maintaining nonviolence in direct action campaigns. Stand up for your rights, but with nonviolence” (“Bomb Hits Home in Birmingham”). If you’re going to kill someone, then kill me. King climbed on top of a parked car and shouted to the rioters in an attempt to quell their fury: “My friends, we have had enough problems tonight. As rocks were thrown at gathering policemen and the situation escalated, A. In August, after a bomb exploded at the home of a prominent black lawyer in downtown Birmingham, thousands of outraged citizens poured into the city streets intent on revenge. King became a leader of the Birmingham Campaign while pastoring at First Street Baptist Church in nearby Ensley, Alabama. King was arrested with King, Jr., and 70 others while participating in an October 1960 lunch counter sit-in in Atlanta. In 1959, King graduated from Morehouse College, and that same year he left Ebenezer to become pastor of Mount Vernon First Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia.Ī. Although as a youth he strongly resisted his father’s ministerial urgings, King eventually began assisting his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was married on 17 June 1950, to Naomi Barber, with whom he had five children. started a family of his own while still a teenager. Less interested in academics than his siblings, A. was, according to his father, “a little rough at times” and “let his toughness build a reputation throughout our neighborhood” (King, Sr., 126). In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. was the third child of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. by family and friends, lived in the shadows of his famous brother, Martin Luther King, Jr., he was a participant in the African American freedom struggle, often appearing at his brother’s side in movements in Atlanta and Birmingham.Īlfred Daniel Williams King was born on 30 July 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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