The genealogy of a national hero
This year — on the 15th of January, 2019 — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90 years old. 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.
The Legal Genealogist 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, Jr.
So I will content myself today — the day on which this nation honors Dr. King for his courage and his vision — as I’ve done before1 with sharing this absolutely wonderful family tree prepared for presentation at the National Archives at Atlanta:2
“From the Roots of a Tree: The Genealogy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
SOURCES
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “From the Roots of a Tree: 2019,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 21 Jan 2019 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed date).
- See Judy G. Russell, “The Genealogy of Martin Luther King Jr.,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 15 Jan 2012 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 21 Jan 2019). ↩
- Excerpted from “From the Roots of a Tree: The Genealogy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” National Archives at Atlanta, Friends of the National Archives (http://friendsnas.org/education/S4_civilRights/Roots_of_MLK.pdf : accessed 21 Jan 2019). ↩
So is this fake news?
I cannot for the life of me imagine why that comment was even written, much less actually posted to this blog.
Thank you for posting this.
Judy, thank you for the link to the family history information on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I took the time to read through the 39 pages on his family origins. I had not seen this and appreciated learning more about his ancestors.