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New center to exemplify social legacy of MLK Sr.
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Christine King Farris, the sister to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and daughter of Martin Luther King Sr., sits next to the organ played by her mother, Alberta Christine Williams King, at which she was fatally shot while playing during a church service in 1974. The organ sits on display in the new Martin Luther King, Sr. Community Resources Complex in Atlanta. - photo by Photos by Associated Press
ATLANTA — The father of Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. But as a young man from a poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia, he is said to have walked north to Atlanta barefoot so he didn’t wear out his only pair of shoes.His legacy is now being honored through a community center built to help other low-income people find a path out of poverty. Known as "Daddy King," the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. became pastor of Atlanta’s influential Ebenezer Baptist Church and a leader of early efforts to challenge the Georgia’s Jim Crow laws.