Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in DuPage County.

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Martin Luther King III gives a speech at the No Kings Day protest in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.

Just like his son, MLK Sr.— who was born Michael King— was a well-know pastor in Atlanta, Ga. In 1934, he traveled to Germany and learned about the 16th-century Protestant reformer, Martin Luther.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 15, 1929. He was the eldest son and the second of four children in his family. In 1944, he attended Morehouse College and earned a sociology degree.

King was born to Alberta Williams and Martin Luther King Sr. in Atlanta, in a modest two-story Queen Anne Victorian home that had been purchased by his maternal grandfather for just $3,500 20 ...