Martin Luther King, Jr. - Family

The Atlanta branch of the NAACP votes to support a lawsuit filed by King, Sr., as head of a citizens’ committee seeking to win equal pay for black teachers.

King, Sr., is defeated by the Reverend L. A. Pinkston of Augusta in a bid for the presidency of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia. Six months earlier, Pinkston was the visiting evangelist at Ebenezer’s spring revival.

King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King attend the National Baptist Convention in Los Angeles, California.

Alberta Williams King initiates a series of annual musicals by Ebenezer’s choirs.

King, Sr., completes term as president of the Atlanta Baptist Ministers Union.

King, Sr., has an automobile accident en route to the National Baptist Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. His mother-in-law, Jennie Celeste Parks Williams, suffers minor injuries.

King, Sr., attends the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta.

King, Sr., steps down as president of the Atlanta District Baptist Young Peoples Union and Sunday School Convention.

King, Sr., addresses the annual Lenten service at the Butler Street YMCA, speaking on “The Compelling Vision of the Kingdom of God.”

King, Sr., joins other speakers in addressing a mass meeting of the NAACP at Wheat Street Baptist Church.