On May 11, 1963, King's house was bombed.

In 1963, King became a leader of the Birmingham campaign, while pastoring at First Baptist Church of Ensley in Birmingham, Alabama. King was arrested, along with his older brother Martin and 70 others, while participating in an October 1960 lunch-counter sit-in in Atlanta. Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement A. That same year, he left Ebenezer Baptist to become pastor of Mount Vernon First Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia. In 1959, King graduated from Morehouse College. He was married on June 17, 1950, to Naomi Ruth Barber King (born November 17, 1931), with whom he had five children: Alveda, Alfred Jr., Derek, Darlene, and Vernon.Īlthough as a youth King had strongly resisted his father's ministerial urgings, he eventually began assisting his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church. D.-according to his father-was 'a little rough at times' and 'let his toughness build a reputation throughout our neighborhood.' : 126 Less interested in academics than his siblings, King started a family of his own while still a teenager and attended college later in life. In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. He was a son of Reverend Martin Luther King (1899–1984), and Alberta Williams King (1904–1974), the youngest of their three children (the other two being Willie Christine, born September 11, 1927, and Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929). Early life Īlfred Daniel Williams King was born July 30, 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia. and the younger son of Martin Luther King Sr.

He was the younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr. Alfred Daniel Williams King (J– July 21, 1969) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist.

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