Clennon Washington King Sr. (July 1, 1891 – March 20, 1975) was a political activist,

Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU), formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded on Independence Day in 1881 by the state legislature. The campus was d ...

student and

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. On August 18, 1918, in

Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon and bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to bu ...

, King married Margaret Allegra Slater, with whom he had seven sons, four of whom would earn both national and international recognition. He ran two local grocery stores and was a notable figure in

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. He helped to establish the local chapter of the

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. In the 1940s, he and his wife Allegra established The Swank Shop, a clothing store in downtown Albany that was moved some years later to another location six blocks away. They had several children including: *

Clennon Washington King Jr. Clennon Washington King Jr. (July 18, 1920 – February 12, 2000) was the second African-American man to run for the office of President of the United States after George Edwin Taylor, and whose attempts at civil rights actions and running for ...

(July 18, 1920 – February 12, 2000) was a civil rights activist and the second African-American to run for

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; *

Chevene Bowers King Chevene Bowers King (October 12, 1923 – March 15, 1988) was an American attorney, civil rights leader in Georgia during the Civil Rights Movement, and political candidate. Early years Born in Albany, Georgia, King was one of eight children of Cl ...

(1923–1988), was a prominent

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attorney whose client list included

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

Posthumously Chevene had a United States Courthouse in

named after him."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.
* 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

; * Preston King (b. 1936) is a civil rights activist, professor, lecturer and

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who was exiled from the

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during the

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era, but was later pardoned by

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in 2000, after 39 years. His other sons were: * Marvin Kenneth King (February 27, 1922 – July 27, 2008) * Paul Dickens King * Allen Alonzo King He is the paternal grandfather of Oona, Baroness King of Bow, a former UK

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; and

Alonzo King Alonzo King, born in Georgia to civil-rights activists Slater King and Valencia King Nelson, is an American dancer and choreographer based in San Francisco. King grew up in Georgia and California, and, as an adult, decided his contribution wou ...

, founder of the Lines Contemporary Ballet Company in

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References

External links

"C.W. King," One Person, One Vote
{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Clennon Washington Sr. 1891 births 1975 deaths American political activists People from Georgia (U.S. state) Tuskegee University alumni