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Atlanta, in the Footsteps Of Martin Luther King And Other Luminaries

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880117
Author:Morris S. Thompson

There are ghosts in black Atlanta, some eminent, some friendly, all findable and worth getting to know, but they are not all what they seem to be at first.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., for example, was named for his father, the prominent Atlanta Baptist minister known in later life as Daddy King. But Martin Luther King Sr., it turns out, was named not for Reformation leader Martin Luther, but for his father's two brothers, Martin and Luther. Anyway, Daddy King reported in his autobiography, published in 1980 by William Morrow & Co., "Mama always insisted that she'd named me ...

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