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IOC MLIOThe Charlotte Post Thursday, January 11,1996 A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Continued From 9C helped establish Atlanta’s NAACP chapter. After King’s father married the Williamses’ only child, Alberta, and then succeeded as Ebenezer’s pastor when his father-in-law died in 1931, the elder King continued the family tradition of forceful preaching and civil rights activism, leading cam paigns for black voting rights and equal salaries for black teachers. In an autobiographical statement written while a student at Crozer, King Jr. described the “noble example” of his father as “the great moving factor” in his decision to become a minister, but he also wavered between acceptance of and rebellion against the religious traditions his father repre sented.. His persistent doubts about Baptist tenets were not allayed until his undergraduate years at Morehouse College (1944-1948), when he came under the influence of President Benjamin Mays and Professor George Kelsey, men he saw as “deeply religious” yet “learned” — “the ideal I wanted a minister to be.” During subsequent the ological studies at Crozer (1948-1951) and Boston University, King gradually reconciled teenage skepticism with his “inner urge... to serve human ity” through the ministry. His academic papers, flawed by plagiaries, displayed his determined effort to appropriate modem theological and philo sophical ideas that would be useful to him in his role as an activist preacher. In one of his papers he explained that his goal was to “synthesize the best in liberal theology with the best in neo-orthodox theology,” and many of his later writings and speeches would display this characteristic eclecticism and dialectical approach. King’s 1953 marriage to Coretta Scott, who shared many of his dissenting views on poli tics and religion, strengthened his ability to embrace his inherited calling while also tran scending it. He drew freely on the works of liber als Paul 'Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, and was strongly influenced by Reihold Niebuhr’s political and ethical realism and the older Social Gospel theology of Walter Rauschenbusch. A spokesman for civil rights Once Rosa Park’s defiance of southern segrega tion thrust him into a leadership role in the See BIOGRAPHY Page lie Strives To Keep The "DREAM "Alive 552-9191 Sni.Hi R1v,1 ai TNlTFRrHATJnF V^ur children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.^^ )ou 0 Keiiyatla 1st Prime Minister Kenya Uphold the dream... IVBF MHUiANKS.V'.l) B\RMFJtSBANK UBr herejbr you. 101 Beatties Ford Road Charlotte • 332-2121 BROTHERHOOD "We must all leam to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools". - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15,1996 We Join The Charlotte Community in commemorating the life of a great leader. Sam Lincoln Mercury,RS. 5201E. Independence Blvd. • 535-7810 THE PRICE AND SERVICE DEALER We Are Proud To Remember The Life Of A Great Man Who Touched The Lives Of All Americans The Staff Of OODLAWN SALUTES Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15,1996 212 Woodlawn Rd. • 525-8350
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