From coming of age under poverty and the looming threat of racial violence to preaching from the Ebenezer pulpit for forty years, King, Sr., candidly reveals his life inside the civil rights movement, illustrating the profound influence he had on his son. Born in 1899 to a family of sharecroppers in Stockbridge, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Sr., came of age under the looming threat of violence at the hands of white landowners. Growing up, he witnessed his family being crushed by the weight of poverty and racism, and escaped to Atlanta to answer the calling to become a preacher. Before engaging in acts of political dissent or preaching at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he would remain for more than four decades, King, Sr., earned high school and college diplomas while working double shifts as a truck driver—and he won the heart of his future wife, Alberta “Bunch” Williams. King, Sr., recalls the struggles and joys of his journey: the pain of leaving his parents and seven siblings on the family farm; the triumph of winning voting rights for blacks in Atlanta; and the feelings of fatherly pride and anxiety as he watched his son put his life in danger at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Originally published in 1980, Daddy King is an unexpected and poignant memoir. “There are two men I am supposed to hate. One is a white man, the other is black, and both are serving time for having committed murder. James Earl Ray is a prisoner in Tennessee, charged with killing my son. Marcus Chenault was institutionalized as deranged after shooting my wife to death. I don’t hate either one. There is no time for that, and no reason, either. Nothing that a man does takes him lower than when he allows himself to fall so far as to hate anyone.” —The Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., in Daddy King

A poignant account of the author's brief years shared with his civil rights leader father offers insight into their special bond, their separation during Dr. King's imprisonment and the author's 5-year-old witness to the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Describes Martin Luther "Daddy" King's influence on the American political scene for over thirty years, and sheds new light on many of the movers and shakers in the civil rights movement and United States government.

There is a King inside every daddy, just waiting to come out - this book helps us see the King in every daddy that just needs a great big smile.

Talk-show host Larry King and his daughter share poignant memories of Chaia's childhood in this account of divorce and parenting told from both a child's and a father's point of view.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a Princess Sarah, a Princess Hannah, a Princess Rebekah, a Queen Mommy, and a Big King Daddy. They all lived in the Land of Worthy where everyone was happy, until one day Big King Daddy is a provider, protector, spiritual leader, and a man of God who leads his family and kingdom with strength and compassion. The enemy wages war against them, and his daughters are adventurous, but with Big King Daddys love for his God and his family they always prevail.

Daddy's ordinary morning activities amuse his young son.