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Date of Birth: 1999 , December-19
Date of Death: 1984 , November-11
Birth Nation: United States

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1929 Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1968 Net worth of his son Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 Death of heart attack
2016 Appeared in "In the Hour of Chaos"
1926 Started his ministerial degree

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January 15 , 1929

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Martin Luther King Sr., an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the United States, was born on January 15, 1929, to his parents James King and Delia Linsey King, in Atlanta, Georgia located in the United States of America.

1968

Net worth of his son Martin Luther King Jr.

King was earning his salary as being a Baptist pastor, missionary, as well as an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the United States. His exact net worth is not available yet but his son Martin Luther King Jr. had the net worth of $250 thousand before his death.

November 11 , 1984

Death of heart attack

Unfortunately, Martin Luther King Sr. died of a heart attack at the Crawford W. Long Hospital in Atlanta on 11th November of 1984 when he was at age of 84. He was interred next to his wife Alberta at the South View Cemetery in Atlanta.

2016

Appeared in "In the Hour of Chaos"

King has also appeared in 2016 American documentary drama "In the Hour of Chaos" written and directed by Bayer Mack, which tells the story of King Sr.'s rise from an impoverished childhood in the violent backwoods of Georgia to become the patriarch of one of the most famous and tragedy, plagued and families in history.

1926

Started his ministerial degree

Martin Luther King Sr. started his ministerial degree at the Morehouse School of Religion in the year 1926. On Thanksgiving Day in 1926, after eight years of courtship, he married Alberta in the Ebenezer Church who was murdered later.

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Martin Luther King Sr. attended Dillard University for a two-year degree. King has also completed his high school education at Bryant Preparatory School and began to preach in several black churches in Atlanta. He first led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and became a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, as the head of the NAACP chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League. As King was a member of the Baptist Church, he decided to become a preacher after being inspired by ministers who were prepared to stand up for racial equality. Thus after the various difficulties, King finally succeed to give equal rights to the civils of America.

Unfortunately, Martin Luther King Sr. died of a heart attack at the Crawford W. Long Hospital in Atlanta on November 11, 1984, at the age of 84. He had got married to his wife Alberta whom King had lost because of her murder in 1974. King had a total of three children together with Alberta. King was earning his salary as being a Baptist pastor, missionary, as well as and an early figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the United States. His exact net worth is not available yet but his son Martin Luther King Jr. had a net worth of $250 thousand before his death.