Obvious typographical errors from the original 1980 publication by William
Morrow & Co. have been corrected to aid in ease of reading. All other possible errors or stylistic inconsistencies have been retained in their original form.
Text design and composition by Kim Arney
Cover photo: Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, and his son, Martin Luther King III, Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1963
Photograph by Richard Avedon
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Cover design: Louis Roe
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: King, Martin Luther, 1899–1984, author. | Riley, Clayton, author.
Title: Daddy King : an autobiography / The Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., with
Clayton Riley ; new foreword by Isaac Newton Farris, Jr. ; foreword by
Benjamin E. Mays ; introduction by Andrew J. Young.
Description: Boston : Beacon Press, [2016] | Originally published: 1980. |
Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016029681| ISBN 9780807097762 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780807097786 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: King, Martin Luther, 1899–1984. |
Baptists—Clergy—Biography. | Clergy—Georgia—Atlanta—Biography. |
African Americans—Georgia—Atlanta—Biography. | Civil rights
workers—Georgia—Atlanta—Biography. | African Americans—Civil
rights—Georgia—Atlanta. | Atlanta (Ga.)—Race relations—20th century. |
Atlanta (Ga.)—Biography.
Classification: LCC BX6449.K56 A3 2016 | DDC 286/.1092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016029681
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