James Albert King
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Born | December 1864 |
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Died | November 17, 1933 (aged 68) |
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Children | Martin Luther King Sr. (son) |
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James Albert King (December 1864 – November 17, 1933) was the father of Martin Luther King Sr. and paternal grandfather of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., A. D. King, and Christine King Farris.
Early life
James Albert King was born in 1864 to an Irish American father Nathan King, and Malinde, a freed African American slave. Nathan King has been variously recorded to have been born in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Ireland. In 2010, DNA testing on James's great-grandson, Martin III by 23andMe confirmed that the King's family Y-chromosome lineage originated from Ireland. King married Delia Linsey (1875–1924) in 1895, and they both worked as sharecroppers, in Henry County and Clayton County in Georgia, and then Stockbridge, Georgia where they settled and where their son, Martin Luther King Sr. was born in 1899.
Later life
King struggled with alcoholism, and disapproved of his son and wife attending church. When his son Martin became involved in an altercation with a white property owner the family went into hiding for a period. King died in 1933.
References
- ^ King (2014), p. 69
- ^ Jonathan DeBurca Butler, Irish Examiner, We had a dream ... he’s one of us
- ^ Nelson (2016) pp. 160-1 "Kittles informed King that his Y-chromosome DNA analysis traced to Ireland and his MTDNA analysis associated him with the Mende."
- ^ Clayborne Carson, Ralph Luker & Penny Russell, eds., The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951, University of California Press, 1992
- ^ Martin Luther King Sr., Daddy King: An Autobiography, New York: William Morrow & Co., 1980.
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- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- National Historical Park
- King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Big Six
- African American founding fathers of the United States
- Authorship issues
- FBI–King suicide letter
- Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
- Season for Nonviolence
- U.S. Capitol Rotunda sculpture
- Oval Office bust
- Homage to King sculpture, Atlanta
- Hope Moving Forward statue, Atlanta
- Safe House Black History Museum
- Statues of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco
- Landmark for Peace Memorial, Indianapolis
- The Dream sculpture, Portland, Oregon
- Kennedy–King College
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose
- Paris park
- Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.
- King County, Washington
- Eponymous streets
- America in the King Years
- Civil rights movement in popular culture
- Lee–Jackson–King Day
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