Today, January 15, 2011 (edit: 2012, darn it!) would have been the 82nd birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was born 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. And those of us old enough to remember know only too well that he died 4 April 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, the victim of an assassin’s bullet.
I couldn’t begin to list the legal changes that have occurred in the United States as the result of the life and the work of Martin Luther King. So I will content myself with sharing this absolutely wonderful family tree prepared by the National Archives at Atlanta:1
National Archives - Genealogy of Martin Luther King Jr.
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
SOURCES
- “From the Roots of a Tree: The Genealogy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” National Archives at Atlanta, Archives.gov (http://www.archives.gov/southeast/education/resources-by-state/mlk-genealogy.html : accessed 14 Jan 2012). ↩
Uh, I think today is January 15, 2012, unless you wrote this post a year ago.
I have GOT to get my 2012 calendar up already yet!!!
Don’t worry about it, Judy. I’m still scribbling 2011 on everything too. It takes me until March at least to learn that it’s a new year 🙂
Great blog by the way!
Thanks, Annie! I’ll usually catch a mistake when it’s staring me in the face, but not this kind of mistake. The year change always catches me flatfooted instead.
While the cited web page no longer exists, it is fortunately available in the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20120926155209/http://www.archives.gov/southeast/education/resources-by-state/mlk-genealogy.html