Add MLK as an interest to stay up to date on the latest MLK news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add InterestThe National Park Service has bought the home in Atlanta, Georgia, where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. Congress declared the home a National Historic Site in 1980, and the National Park Service began offering tours of it in 1982. The home was built in 1895 for a white family and bought by King's maternal grandfather in 1909 for $3,500. King's younger brother, A.D. King, and his family were the last of the King line to live there.

Source: ABC News December 14, 2018 11:26 UTC