Martin Luther King Pecan Pie

"CALLIE’S PECAN PIE (1949) Makes 1 (8-inch) pie. He loved pecan pie and this was a favorite pecan pie recipe from Atlanta, Georgia, where King was born and raised. Brought me to the Magnolia Tea Room at Rich’s department store. King personally helped to desegregate the restaurant at a sit-in in 1960. Legendary food writer Clementine Paddleford convinced Callie Williams, the pecan pie baker for Rich’s since the 1920s, to divulge the recipe for an article published in the New York Herald Tribune on July 17, 1949."