It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present. These factors were highly significant in determining my religious attitudes. I can hardly remember a time that they ever argued (my father happens to be the kind who just won't argue) or had any great falling out. So it seems that from a hereditary point of view, nature was very kind to me. I have always been somewhat precocious, both physically and mentally. I guess the same thing would apply to my mental life. It is said that at my birth the doctors pronounced me a one hundred percent perfect child, from a physical point of view. It was a wholesome community, notwithstanding the fact that none of us were ever considered members of the "upper-upper class." Crime was at a minimum, and most of our neighbors were deeply religious.įrom the very beginning I was an extraordinarily healthy child. It is probably fair to class the people of this community as those of average income. Most of the Negroes in my hometown who had attained wealth lived in a section of town known as "Hunter Hills." The community was characterized with a sort of unsophisticated simplicity. No one in our community had attained any great wealth. The community in which I was born was quite ordinary in terms of social status. After that school closed, I went to Booker T. I went through the public schools of Atlanta for a period, and then I went to what was then known as the Atlanta University Laboratory High School for two years. I'm now co-pastor of that church, and my office in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is on Auburn Avenue. Our church, Ebenezer Baptist, is on Auburn Avenue. My birthplace was Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the state and the so-called "gateway to the South." Atlanta is home for me. I can see the effects of this early childhood experience on my present anticapitalistic feelings. I was much too young to remember the beginning of this depression, but I do recall, when I was about five years of age, how I questioned my parents about the numerous people standing in breadlines. I was born in the late twenties on the verge of the Great Depression, which was to spread its disastrous arms into every corner of this nation for over a decade. travels to Dublin, Georgia, to deliver "The Negro and the Constitution" in oratory contest King Jr.'s grandmother Jennie Celeste Williams dies and family moves to 193 Boulevard in Atlanta Williams dies and is succeeded as pastor of Ebenezer by King Sr. Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Jr., born at Williams/King family home at 501 Auburn Avenue in AtlantaĪ. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Sr., marries Alberta Williams, daughter of A.D. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher.
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