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The interesting history of the real name of Martin Luther King Jr. – and why it was changed
"Michael King Day."
Doesn't have quite the same ring, does it?
Great names go with great deeds.
So maybe Michael King Sr. knew what he was doing when — in 1934 — he made a momentous change.
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Or rather two.
He would thereafter be known as the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. His 5-year-old son — also a Michael — would be Martin Luther King Jr.
What? You didn't know that "Martin" was not MLK's given name?
"(King Sr.'s) mother insisted that she named him Michael, after the archangel Michael," said King scholar Patrick Parr, author of "The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr.
Comes of Age."
That MLK was not born MLK might be news to some — as we prepare to celebrate the 36th federal Martin Luther King Day on Monday.
But the name change is worth thinking about. It says a lot about the man, the values of his family, and the larger meaning of what he did.
"Symbolically, it matters, and it adds a