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Martin Luther, portrait of a future King

 

King’s original name was Michael King Jr. It was only when he was five years old that his father, Michael King Sr., changed both his name and his son’s to Martin Luther King, following a trip to eastern Germany. Here the father, a Baptist minister of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta , “came and developed an appreciation for the Father of the Reformation to the extent that, upon returning to the States, he changed both names.

January 20, 2014