Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project

Here is this week's trivia question: James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago this week. Which Harlem Renaissance artist did Baldwin call his "spiritual father"?

In an address from the Neshoba County courthouse steps just prior to the demonstration, King stated, “In this county Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner were brutally murdered. I believe the murderers are somewhere around me at this moment.” (15/15)

In the photograph, King, Andrew Young, and others march through Philadelphia, Mississippi, on 21 June 1966—the two-year anniversary of the workers’ disappearance. (14/15)

This week, we remember the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers who were murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen and Mississippi law enforcement officials sixty years ago. (1/15)

As shown in the poll results, the answer was music! Thanks for participating!

Here is this week's trivia question: What was Coretta Scott King's area of study at Antioch college?

Ninety-four years ago, this month (30 July 1930), Alfred Daniel Williams (A.D.) King was born in Atlanta, Georgia

A. D. was the third child of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr. In contrast to his peacemaking brother, Martin, A. D. was, according to his father, “a little rough at times” and

Praised by his father as “an able preacher, a concerned, loving pastor,” A. D. King’s life was tragically cut short when he drowned on 21 July 1969, at the age of 38. To learn more about A. D, King, check out our encyclopedia entry: kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-alfred-da….