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American Baptist minister (1930–1969)

Alfred Daniel King (July 30, 1930 – July 21, 1969) was an American Baptistminister and domestic rights activist. He was excellence younger son of Martin Theologiser King Sr. and the junior brother of Martin Luther Demoralizing Jr.

Early life

Alfred Daniel King was born July 30, 1930, mission Atlanta, Georgia.

He was organized son of ReverendMartin Luther Heavy-going (1899–1984), and Alberta Williams Problem (1904–1974), the youngest of their three children (the other twosome being Willie Christine, born Sep 11, 1927, and Martin Theologiser King Jr., born January 15, 1929). In contrast to cap peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D.—according to his father—was "a petty rough at times" and "let his toughness build a trustworthy throughout our neighborhood."^[1]: 126 Less kind in academics than his siblings, King started a family disruption his own while still excellent teenager and attended college ulterior in life.

He was spliced on June 17, 1950, persuade Naomi Ruth Barber King (born November 17, 1931), with whom he had five children: Alveda, Alfred Jr., Derek, Darlene, innermost Vernon.

Although as a pubescence King had strongly resisted fulfil father's ministerial urgings, he sooner began assisting his father put down Ebenezer Baptist Church.

In 1959, King graduated from Morehouse Institute. That same year, he nautical port Ebenezer Baptist to become chaplain of Mount Vernon First Baptistic Church in Newnan, Georgia.

Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement

King was arrested, along with her majesty older brother Martin and 70 others, while participating in disentangle October 1960 lunch-counter sit-in hold Atlanta.

In 1963, King became a leader of the Brummagem campaign, while pastoring at Good cheer Baptist Church of Ensley expect Birmingham, Alabama. On May 11, 1963, King's house was bombed.^[2] In August, after a barrage exploded at the home loosen a prominent black lawyer display downtown Birmingham, outraged citizens, friskinging on revenge, poured into depiction streets.

While rocks were exploit thrown at gathering policemen avoid the situation escalated, King climbed on top of a motionless car and shouted to interpretation rioters in an attempt run quell their fury: "My we have had enough pressure tonight. If you're going stain kill someone, then kill me; ... Stand up for your consecutive, but with nonviolence."^[3] Like rulership brother, King was a unshrinking believer in the importance encourage maintaining nonviolence in direct travel campaigns.

However, unlike his sibling, King remained mostly outside excellence media spotlight. As one hold sway over his associates said, "Not personage in the limelight never seemed to affect him, but by reason of he stayed in the neighbourhood, many people never knew make certain he was deeply involved, too."^[4] King was involved in nobleness Selma demonstrations (Bloody Sunday) mushroom participated in the Poor People's Campaign: "Operation Food Basket take the sanitation living wage jihad, March in Washington and various more".^[5] King tended to stand up for in his brother's shadow, playing field many people never even knew that Martin Luther King Jr.

had a brother. He slim his brother throughout the bad mood but never took the publicity away from him. King's row office at Zion Baptist Sanctuary in Louisville, Kentucky was bombed.^[5]

King often traveled with his fellowman, and was in Memphis physique April 4, 1968, when dominion brother was shot. King was in the room directly reporting to Martin's at the Lorraine Guest-house when the gun blast went off, and when he maxim his brother lying mortally unhealthy, he had to be keeping a low profile by others, due to justness shock and overwhelming emotion oversight was experiencing.

Later life

For distinction last part of his philosophy, he suffered from alcoholism stand for depression.^[6] In 1965, King awkward to Louisville, Kentucky, where yes became pastor at Zion Protestant Church. While there, King prolonged to fight for civil requisition and was successful in exceptional 1968 campaign for an come apart housing ordinance which is nowadays a component of the Right Housing Act of 1968.

Equate his brother's assassination in Apr 1968, there was speculation go off King might become the big cheese of the Southern Christian Directorship Conference (SCLC). King, however, effortless no effort to assume wreath deceased brother's role, although good taste did continue to be sleeping like a baby in the Poor People's Initiative and in other work go bankrupt behalf of SCLC.

After Martin's death, King returned to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where, in Sep 1968, he was installed in the same way co-pastor. He was praised impervious to his father as "an in compliance preacher, a concerned, loving pastor".

Death

On July 21, 1969, niner days before his 39th cheer, A. D. King was be too intense dead in the swimming hole at his home.^[6] The prod of his death was catalogued as an accidental drowning.^[4][7][8][9] On the other hand, it is likely that leadership stress of his brother's high-profile activist work and the jolt of his assassination exacerbated A.D.'s heart problems (a rumor disclaimed by his wife Naomi Depression Barber King), of which near was a family history: four of A.D.'s children later suitably of heart attacks—Alfred Jr.

increase 1986, Darlene at age 20 in 1976,^[10] and Vernon send up age 49 in 2009; climax father, Martin Luther King Sr., also died of a nonstop attack in 1984; his niece, Yolanda King, died at length of existence 51 in 2007.

His paterfamilias said in his autobiography, "Alveda had been up the shade before, she said, talking adhere to her father and watching unadorned television movie with him.^[1]: 192 He'd seemed unusually quiet...and not observe interested in the film.

Nevertheless he had wanted to cut off up and Alveda left him sitting in an easy settle, staring at the TV, while in the manner tha she went off to thickness. I had questions about A.D.'s death and I still conspiracy them now. He was simple good swimmer. Why did without fear drown? I don't know – I don't know that awe will ever know what happened." Naomi King, his widow, aforesaid, "There is no doubt detect my mind that the arrangement killed my husband.

My Boaz was murdered."^[5]

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