Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (born 1899)

Martin Luther King Sr.

American Baptist preacher (1899–1984)

Martin Luther King Sr. was an American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement. He was the father and namesake of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975.