LEADER 02438nam 22004333 450 001 9910156239803321 005 20210901203218.0 010 $a0-8070-9778-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6050714 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6050714 035 $a(OCoLC)967966577 035 $a(BIP)58924339 035 $a(BIP)55320652 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985054 100 $a20210901d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDaddy King $eAn Autobiography 210 1$aBoston :$cBeacon Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 311 08$a0-8070-9776-4 330 $aFrom growing up amidst poverty and racism to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., reveals his life inside the civil rights movement--illustrating the profound influence he had on his son Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white landowners. Growing up, he witnessed his family being crushed by the weight of poverty and racism, and escaped to Atlanta to answer the calling to become a preacher. Before engaging in acts of political dissent or preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he would remain for more than four decades, King, Sr., earned high school and college diplomas while working double shifts as a truck driver--and he won the heart of his future wife, Alberta "Bunch" Williams. In Daddy King , King, Sr., recalls the struggles and joys of his journey: the pain of leaving his parents and seven siblings on the family farm; the triumph of winning voting rights for blacks in Atlanta; and the feelings of fatherly pride and anxiety as he watched his son put his life in danger. Originally published in 1980, it is an unexpected and poignant memoir from an early and legendary figure in the civil rights movement. 607 $aAtlanta (Ga.)$xRace relations$y20th century 607 $aAtlanta (Ga.)$vBiography 676 $a286.1092 700 $aKing$b Martin Luther$0154286 701 $aKing$b Martin Luther, Sr$01247675 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156239803321 996 $aDaddy King$92892167 997 $aUNINA