“Coming for a middle-class family of Southern black ministry, Martin Luther King Jr. was cultivated into a man of profound importance. He lived on Auburn Avenue, home to some of the country’s largest and most prosperous black businesses and black churches in the years before the civil rights movement. Growing up, King experienced prejudices common in the South. However, at the age six, when a white playmates parent banned him from contact with king, he recognized the start of something that went…
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