B.B. King
Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on the Berclair cotton plantation near the town of Itta Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella King. He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi to be his home. When King was four years old, his mother left his father for another man, so he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Elnora Farr, in Kilmichael, Mississippi.
Hanford L. King Jr.
King was born on September 18, 1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Hanford Langdon King and Hephizibah Vernon Hopkins. In 1943 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Clark University. He also studied at the Episcopal Theological Seminary from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1946. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University in 1950.