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17 de sept. de 2019 · Back in Atlanta, the King family was still feeling the devastating pain of the loss of Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., to an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968, at age 39. Tragedy struck again when his brother, Rev. Alfred Daniel “A. D.” Williams King was discovered dead in his swimming pool, on that July day, which they ruled an accidental ...
King later moved to Louisville, Kentucky, to become pastor of Zion Baptist Church. After his brother’s death in 1968 A. D. returned to Atlanta to serve as co-pastor of Ebenezer with his father. Source: MLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
As a movement leader for the Birmingham Campaign, A.D. King was at the forefront of every major civil rights event in Birmingham in 1963, a crucial year in the civil rights struggle as the city’s black community began a massive direct-action campaign to attack Birmingham’s system of segregation.King's efforts came at a time when white ...
January 2, 1863 to March 21, 1931. Although likely born in 1861, A. D. Williams, the grandfather of Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrated 2 January 1863, the day after the effective date of the Emancipation Proclamation, as his birthday.Williams was one of the pioneers of a distinctive African American version of the social gospel, endorsing a strategy that combined elements of Booker T ...
10 de feb. de 2020 · A.D. and King followed in the footsteps of their father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr as preachers. Both graduated from Morehouse College, though A.D. was “a little rough at times” and less ...
Donate. The A.D.King Foundation Inc., a non-profit (IRS 501 (c) (3) status): is a non-violent conflict resolution entity formed to revolutionize the mindset, attitude, and behavior that promote violence and war with non-violent principles, methods, and direct actions. The mission is to promote youth empowerment development and non-violent social change strategies as a way of life throughout ...
21 de feb. de 2017 · “A.D. King, if it hadn’t been for Martin and his father, would have been a prominent preacher in this city, because he was a very good preacher,” Atlanta's former Mayor, Andrew Young, told ...
