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"Free at last, free at last.  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"
-Dr Martin Luther King

Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.:

by Clayborne Carson (editor of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr., synthesized ideas drawn from many different cultural traditions.

Born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. He was the grandson of the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor and also became a civil rights leader.

Although, from an early age, King resented religious emotionalism and questioned literal interpretations of scripture, he ne