His name was Michael Luther King Jr. at first then he changed it to Martin
To this day, questions remain over the names of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and
his father: what names they were given by their parents, what names appeared on
their birth records, and when (if ever) they changed their names are subjects of some
murkiness. According to an account Martin Luther King, Sr. gave to a New York Post
reporter in 1957, he had always intended his son's name to be Martin Luther, and the
appearance of the name 'Michael' in his son's birth records was a mistake due to
confusion over his own name:
I had been known as Michael Luther King or "Mike" up until I was 22 ... when
one day my father, James Albert King, told me: 'You aren't named Mike or
Michael either. Your name is Martin Luther King. Your mother just called you
Mike for short.' I was elated to know that I had really been named for the
great leader of the Protestant Reformation, but there was no way of
knowing if papa had made a mistake after all. Neither of my parents could
read or write and they kept no record of Negro births in our backwoods
county ... I gladly accepted Martin Luther King as my real name and when
M.L. was born, I proudly named him Martin Luther King, Jr. But it was not
until 1934, when I was seeking my first passport ... that I found out that
Dr. Johnson, who delivered M.L., had listed him in the city records as
Michael Luther King, Jr., because he thought that was my real name.
No records documenting a formal name change for either King yet have been
uncovered, so in a strict legal sense one might say that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name
officially remained "Michael" until his death. However, what constitutes a "legal name"
can be quite fluid. My own mother, born in the same era as
Martin Luther King, Jr., was raised by people other than her
birth parents from an early age and did not know her real
first and middle names. (Indeed, she did not learn which
names were actually listed on her birth record until I
obtained a copy of the document for her when she was in
her mid-50s.) Nonetheless, the first and middle names she
adopted in place of the unknown real ones were listed on
every government-issued record pertaining to her created
during her adult lifetime (e.g., marriage license, driver's
license, Social Security card, children's birth certificates) and
were therefore her "legal" names every bit as much (if not
moreso) than the ones that appeared on her birth record.
In any case, whether Martin Luther King, Sr. gave a true account of the issue in 1957
(i.e., that both he and his son were officially named 'Martin' by their fathers but called
'Michael' through confusion or mistake) or simply decided in his adulthood that he
preferred he and his son be known as 'Martin' instead of 'Michael,' the name change was
not (as suggested above) an affectation on the part of Martin Luther King, Jr.; it was
something decided for him by his father while he was still very young.
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He was born Michael Luois King, Jr. His father changed the names in 1935 to Martin Luther in honor of the German Protestant reformer.
Martin Luther King Jr. was his real name. He was an American civil rights leader and activist. He started the African-American civil rights movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born Michael King and renamed by his father honoring Martin Luther .
no, his real name is Michael Luther king
His full name was Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King's real name was actually Michael. He was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as "Daddy King." In 1935, "Daddy King" was inspired to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He announced to his congregation that in future they were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr." Michael Kingremained Martin Luther King's real name right up to the time he died, as the name change was never made legal.
Yes, Martin Luther King, Jr. was very real.
no his original name was Michael Luther king but he changed it when he was five
Martin Luther Kings name is actually Michael. He thought Martin Luther King sounded better, so he changed it.
Martin Luther King's real name was actually Michael. He was the son of a Black preacher known at the time only as "Daddy King." In 1935, "Daddy King" was inspired to name himself after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He announced to his congregation that in future they were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr." Michael Kingremained Martin Luther King's real name right up to the time he died, as the name change was never made legal.