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...just don't worry about things like this," he says. "If I did, I just couldn't get anything done. One time I did have a gun in Montgomery. I don't know why I got it in the first place. I sat down with Coretta one night and we talked about it. I pointed out that as a leader of a nonviolent movement, I had no right to have a gun, so I got rid of it. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. If you are cut down...
Montgomery. The first big test of King's philosophy-or of his operating technique-came in 1955, after he had married a talented young soprano named Coretta Scott and accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery...
Born. To Martin Luther King Jr.. 34. Negro civil rights leader, and Coretta Scott King. 35; their fourth child, second daughter; in Atlanta...
Born. To the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 32, softspoken, strong-willed Baptist minister who led Montgomery, Ala. Negroes in the 1956 fight to integrate the city's bus line, and Coretta King, 33; their third child, second son; in Atlanta...
...refused to let him drive or walk alone. The Kings moved most of their furniture into back rooms, leaving the living room virtually bare. King briefly considered arming himself, but decided against it ("As the leader of a nonviolent movement, I'd look pretty bad carrying a gun"). Coretta King took their infant daughter to Atlanta, but soon returned. "When I'm away from this," she says, "I get depressed. I feel completely helpless...