Clennon Washington King, Sr.

Clennon Washington King, Sr. (July 1, 1891 - March 20, 1975), born in Daugherty County in Albany, Georgia to Allen James King and Annie Bowers King, was a civil rights activist, Tuskeegee Institute student and chauffeur of Booker T. Washington. On August 18, 1918 in Milledgeville, Georgia he married Margaret Allegra Slater, with whom he had seven sons, four of which would earn both national and international recognition. He ran a local grocery store and was a notable figure in Albany, Georgia helping establish the local chapter of the NAACP.

• Clennon Washington King, Jr. (July 18, 1920 – February 12, 2000), was a civil rights activist and was the first African-American to run for President of the United States of America;
• Chevene Bowers King (1923 - 1988), was a prominent civil rights attorney whose client list included the late Martin Luther King, Jr.^[1] Posthumously Chevene had a United States Courthouse in Albany, Georgia named after him.^[2]
• Slater Hunter King (July 18, 1927 - 1969), was a successful real estate broker and civil rights leader who helped his father found the Albany chapter of the NAACP;
• Preston King (b. 1936), is a civil rights activist, professor, lecturer and political theorist who was exiled from the United States during the Civil Rights era, but was later pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2000 after 39 years.

His other sons include:

• Marvin Kenneth King (February 27, 1922 - July 27, 2008)
• Paul Dickens King
• Allen Alonzo King

He is the paternal grandfather of Oona King, a former UK Member of Parliament; and Alonzo King, founder of the Lines Contemporary Ballet Company in San Francisco, California.

Notes

1. ^ "C. B. King (1923-1988)". www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1100. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
2. ^ "U.S. Representative John Lewis (Ga.-D) and Other Civil Rights Vets to help Dedicate 1st U.S. Courthouse named for a Black Man in former Jim Crow South" October 24, 2002

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Name	King, Sr., Clennon Washington
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Date of birth	July 1, 1891
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Date of death	March 20, 1975
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