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Martin Luther King Jr: The German Connection And How He Got His Name
By Tanya Mohn; Forbes; January 12 2012
On Monday,January 16th, this country celebrates the memory and legacy of the late Civil Rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Both Dr. King and his father are celebrated figures in the United States, but most people do not know the connection between the two Baptist ministers from the American South and the medieval German monk whose name they bear.
As an adult, Martin Luther King Sr., whose given name was Michael King, chose the name Martin Luther for himself and for his young son after visiting the region of eastern Germany where Martin Luther, the Father of the Reformation, was born, lived and worked, according to LutherCountry, an umbrella title for two neighboring German states, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.