Ginna carter biography of martin luther

Born less than five years apart in Georgia, the late President Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. both came up during the civil rights movement, rising to the top of American politics to be remembered as statesmen of their time.

And despite having never met, Carter and King would spend more than half a century tangled in a dance that would forever shape the legacy of the other.

"When I look at his life and I look at my father's life, they both started from different place," Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the civil rights icon, told Newsweek in an interview following Carter's death at 100 last month "But in an interesting way, they both operated from a similar frame of reference, which was the belief that we can create a just, humane, peaceful and equitable world."

For all the parallels between them, Carter and King took starkly different paths.

King's father was an influential pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta