Martin Luther King, Jr. - Family

King, Sr., stages a protest against the segregation of elevators at the Fulton County Courthouse.

King leaves Dexter in his car with a friend and the church secretary. After picking up three others at an MIA station, King is stopped for traveling 30 mph in a 25 mph zone. He is arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, and jailed. Abernathy arrives to bail him out; as a crowd gathers at the jail, prison officials escort King out of the jail and drive him back to town. According to King, on this day and the previous two more than one hundred traffic citations are issued to car pool drivers. Later that evening, a group of King’s friends decide to organize protection for him.

King, Jr., accompanied by his mother, Alberta Williams King, sings at a meeting of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia.

King, Sr., attends the National Baptist Convention in Oklahoma.

King, Sr., tours the Middle East and Europe with ten other Baptist ministers from the United States. They attend the Baptist World Alliance in Berlin.

King leaves Montgomery to attend a session of the National Baptist Convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his parents. 

Alberta Williams King and King, Sr., spend two weeks in New York and Boston.

The Kings rent an apartment at 396 Northampton Street in Boston and resume their studies.

King, Sr., preaches at Dexter, while King, Jr., preaches a sermon titled “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore” at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

James Albert King dies.