Jurist Who Co Founded Memphis Tennessee County

Jurist Who Co Founded Memphis Tennessee County

Jurist Who Co Founded Memphis Tennessee County

On January 15, 1929, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and his wife Alberta Williams King welcomed the birth of their son, Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s family actively supported education, equality and political activism, and it was those early social justice roots that eventually led Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to become one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting a sanitation worker strike. Despite the great loss of this American Civil Rights leader who fought against racial prejudice, his legacy lives on.