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King Dreamer and Martyr A Century of King Photos
Twenty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, the piece surveys his life from Atlanta on Auburn Avenue to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Crozer Seminary, and Boston University. It notes his family, early racism, education, marriage to Coretta Scott King, and ongoing legacy through his birthday observances and the King Center site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
America
Sweet Auburn
Auburn
King
Daddy” King
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Georgia
Ebenezer
Johnson Was Co
King’s Birthplace
National Park Service
Troy Lissmore
Ebenezer Church
Park Service
George Kelsey
Benjamin Mays
Chester
Crozer Theological Seminary
Walter Rauschenbusch
Crozer
Boston University
Coretta Scott
New England Conservatory
Coretta Scott King
Lynn Carter
Lady Bird Johnson
Martin
Supreme Court
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Montgomery
Ala
God
Paul Tillich
Henry Wiemar