Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. was on a multinational trip in 1934 with the Baptist World Alliance ... and I am happy that my parents decided to name me after the great Reformer,” he said to ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. was on a multinational trip in 1934 with the Baptist World Alliance when he had the idea, according to 1517. He had joined with the Fifth World Congress of Baptist, ...

And when Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott and his home was bombed, Martin Luther King Sr. was there the next day saying, you're coming home with me.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta Scott King after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., in a file photo from March 22, 1956.

King’s grandfather, Martin Luther King Sr., who would marry Williams’ daughter, Alberta, became the pastor in 1931 and immediately began campaigning for voting rights in Atlanta.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to biographer Jonathan Eig about King a Life . "One of the interesting things about King is that he's a protest leader who really does not like conflict," Eig says.