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...Atlantan. Her father had founded the church in which she was slain. Members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and most of us who worked closely with her son, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., knew her as Mother King. It was not difficult to call her mother. She was first and foremost, and with great pride, a wife and mother. She was a black woman of unspoiled ideals, living a life of example and challenge that gave meaning to the latent and elusive concepts of love and respect for human worth...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, is a native Atlantan, a former activist in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close friend of the King family...
...last have proved to be the most fecund of all. Fully 40% of all offspring on the national rolls of the Aid for Dependent Children program are illegitimate. AFDC spent $2.3 billion last year, up from a quarter of a billion dollars 20 years ago. One angry black Atlantan estimates that 616 poor Negro households in her housing project contain only 30 headed by a husband. The rest are women-dominated. Mrs. Marie Childress of Cleveland, for example, receives only $102 a month to feed and clothe ten children. Many AFDC mothers conceal pregnancies as long as possible...
...perform at a Claiborne Temple rally later that evening, King made a special request: "I want you to sing that song Precious Lord *for me-sing it real pretty." When Chauffeur Solomon Jones naggingly advised King to don his topcoat against the evening's chill, the muscular Atlantan grinned and allowed: "O.K., I will...
Augusta National was founded in 1930 by Jones, the wealthy Atlantan who astounded the golfing world that same year by sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words...