From the Roots of a Tree: 2021

The genealogy of a national hero

This year, perhaps more than ever, we need to remember.

This year — on the 15th of January, 2021 — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 92 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. Nor the work that remains to be done.

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: 2021,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 18 Jan 2021).