![]() ![]() I'm now co-pastor of that church, and my office in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is on Auburn Avenue. Our church, Ebenezer Baptist, is on Auburn Avenue. ![]() My birthplace was Atlanta, Georgia, the capital of the state and the so-called "gateway to the South." Atlanta is home for me. I can see the effects of this early childhood experience on my present anticapitalistic feelings. I was much too young to remember the beginning of this depression, but I do recall, when I was about five years of age, how I questioned my parents about the numerous people standing in breadlines. I was born in the late twenties on the verge of the Great Depression, which was to spread its disastrous arms into every corner of this nation for over a decade. travels to Dublin, Georgia, to deliver "The Negro and the Constitution" in oratory contest King Jr.'s grandmother Jennie Celeste Williams dies and family moves to 193 Boulevard in Atlanta ![]() Williams dies and is succeeded as pastor of Ebenezer by King Sr. Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Jr., born at Williams/King family home at 501 Auburn Avenue in AtlantaĪ. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church Michael (later Martin) Luther King, Sr., marries Alberta Williams, daughter of A.D. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. ![]()
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