- Collection:
- Edward A. Jones Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Interview with Martin Luther King Sr., Part 1, circa 1970
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- African American churches
African Americans--Religion
African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This interview with Martin Luther King Sr. provides an account of his birth in 1899 and his formative years as a sharecropper in Henry County, Georgia. He details the psychological "agony" of being dehumanized by white landowners and his early resolve to escape such conditions. He also addresses his domestic life, specifically his father’s alcoholism and physical abuse of his mother. King describes a pivotal moment of adolescent resistance when he physically intervened to protect his mother, an act that permanently altered his father’s behavior and led to an eventual reconciliation.
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.132:0122
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Edward A. Jones Papers||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:132
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
