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Samuel L. Jackson Once Held Martin Luther King Jr.’s Father Hostage

During a 1969 Morehouse protest, Jackson and other students confined trustees, including Martin Luther King Sr., and Jackson was later suspended.

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Long before he was starring in hit movies like Pulp Fiction and Die Hard With a Vengeance, Samuel L. Jackson was just another student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. And it was there that the future actor first started to make a name for himself—but not for the greatest of reasons.

According to Parade magazine, Jackson led a protest with other students in 1969, demanding reform to the school’s curriculum. Evidently, they were pushing for a Black studies course. Jackson and company reportedly ended up in a standoff with local authorities after holding members of........

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