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Jan 20, 2014 · A.D. King moved to Kentucky in 1965 to pastor Zion Baptist Church in Louisville, where he formed the Kentucky Christian Leadership Conference and fought for fair housing. On occasion, he traveled ...
Jan 19, 2014 · On July 20, 1969, 15 months after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, A.D. sat agitated in his home. “They killed my brother. I’m gonna find out who did it,” he told someone on the ...
Mar 15, 2024 · A. D. King in 1967. Alfred Daniel Williams "A. D." King Sr (born July 30, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia - died July 21, 1969 in Atlanta) was the pastor of First Baptist Church of Ensley from 1961 to 1965 and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham . King was the youngest of three children born to Martin Luther King, Sr and his wife ...
Feb 21, 2017 · “A.D. King, if it hadn’t been for Martin and his father, would have been a prominent preacher in this city, because he was a very good preacher,” Atlanta's former Mayor, Andrew Young, told ...
Naomi Ruth Barber King, A.D. King's widow, committed the rest of her life to making the contributions and legacy of her late husband more publicly known, and in 2008, she established the A.D. King Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia to educate the public about the history of the civil rights movement. The A.D. King’s Home was listed in the ...
In 1963 A. D. King was pastor of Ensley’s First Street Baptist Church and a leader of the Birmingham movement. On 11 May 1963 his parsonage was bombed along with the Gaston Hotel, where King, Jr., was staying. A. D. King later moved to Louisville, Kentucky, to become pastor of Zion Baptist Church.
Sep 24, 2020 · A.D. King was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement, and the youngest brother of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1961 to 1965, he and his family resided at the home in Ensley, Alabama, while he led the congregation of First Baptist Church of Ensley through the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, known as the Birmingham Campaign.
