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Title: King The Dreamer


1
King The Dreamer
  • The Early Life of King

2
Background on Daddy King
  • He was from Georgia and the son of a
    sharecropper.
  • He grew up poor and rugged.
  • He was physically robust.
  • One time he fought and defeated his father who
    had assaulted his mother while drunk.
  • He also outsmarted the man who owned his father's
    land to whom he was indebted.

3
Daddy King The Man
  • Daddy King did not "bow" to anyone. Once when a
    police officer stopped him in the car he referred
    to Daddy king as boy. Upon which Daddy King
    said, pointing to Mike said he's a boy, I'm and
    man.
  • His father was although a strong disciplinarian
    demonstrated his love to his 3 children in many
    ways.

4
The Dynasty Continued
  • Daddy King married Alberta Christine Williams and
    became Pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church taking
    over for father-in-law Rev. Alfred Daniel William.

5
  • King was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1939.
  • He was a healthy and robust child and lived in a
    congenial home. He had always been "somewhat
    precocious." He was an active swimmer, played
    tennis, football and baseball in his
    neighborhood.
  • He joined the church when he was five but not out
    of deep conviction but to keep up with his sister.

6
The Young King Family
  • Mike had an older sister Christine and a younger
    brother AD.
  • He was born in a black bourgeois community.

7
  • King grew up in a very religious, politically
    astute and socially active household.

8
  • Mike's maternal grandfather, Rev. Alfred Daniel
    Williams founded Ebeneezer Baptist church. His
    grandfather was one of the charter members of the
    NAACP and the National Baptist Convention, USA.

9
  • He was one of the one's responsible for the
    erection of Atlanta's first Black high school he
    and others successfully defeated a bond issue.
    He was also involved in a boycott of one of the
    newspapers which caused the newspaper to go
    under.

10
  • Mike was fascinated with language words could
    arouse a congregation. He had determined when he
    was young that he "was going to get me some big
    words." He liked books even before he could
    read he had books around him.

11
  • The church for Mike provided a place where he
    gained strength and a perspective that Black
    people were not only somebody but they mattered
    to God. God was the source of life, hope, joy,
    power, strength, support.

12
  • The Black church celebrated God--they prayed,
    shouted, sang preaching was an art form.
    Praising God with "thank you" "amen" "praise the
    Lord" was common--it was participatory worship.

13
  • When Mike was six had his first significant
    racial experience when the father of his white
    friend told him he could no longer play together
    because he was "colored". He was heartbroken and
    did not know what to do--his parents talked to
    him about he color bar. When his parent had
    disclosed the episodes of racism in society and
    their own personal experiences He said "I was
    greatly shocked, and from that moment I was
    determined to hate every white person."

14
  • Although the King's lived in a segregated society
    his parents modeled and taught their children
    how to maintain a sense of self.
  • His mother instilled in the children a sense of
    self-respect. "She taught him to feel a sense
    of 'somebodiness and that he should not hate
    because whites "it was my Christian duty to love
    him."

15
  • He struggled with racism. He tried to understand
    how he could love people that hated him. This
    plagued him for a number of years.

16
  • Atlanta was very segregated a black person could
    not go to just any public park, could not go to
    so called all white schools could not go to the
    lunch counter.

17
A Taste of Desegregation
  • He got a taste of desegregation in Connecticut
    the summer before he went to college.
  • He and his brother AD were the only blacks at
    this tobacco farm. Mike "preached" to over a
    hundred boys and ate in "one of the finest
    restaurants in Hartford."

18
A Change
  • Although the church had fortified the sense of
    worth 'preached' by his parents it did not change
    his attitudes towards white immediately. His
    exposure and education later on did that . "I did
    not conquer this antiwhite feeling until I
    entered college and came in contact with the
    white students through working with interracial
    organizations."

19
Sources
  • Slide 3 - http//www.earthstation1.com/Civil_Right
    s/MLK/Pics/MLK50s-Sr.Jr..jpg
  • Slide 4 - http//com.pp.asu.edu/sac/MLK.html
  • Slide 5 - http//www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlyo
    ung.gif
  • Slide 6 - http//www.kingforamerica.com/adkfoundat
    ion_tour2b.htm
  • Slide 7 - http//www.earthstation1.com/Civil_Right
    s/MLK/Pics/MLK6411-EbenezerBaptistChurch.jpg
  • Slide 8 - http//com.pp.asu.edu/sac/MLK.html
  • Slide 9 - http//www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/our_schools
    /high/high/washp/wash
  • Slide 12 - http//www.milwaukee.tec.wi.us/times/43
    06/photos/images/gospel20choir202041x29.jpg
  • Slide 13 - http//historywired.si.edu/images/objec
    ts/181a.jpg
  • Slide 14 - http//com.pp.asu.edu/sac/MLK.html
  • Slide 15 - http//www.cnn.com/US/9801/18/king.lega
    cy/
  • Slide 16 - http//www.cnn.com/US/9801/18/king.lega
    cy/segregation.jpg
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