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Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention and American Baptist Churches USA. It was the church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was co-pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968, the location of the funerals of both Dr. King and ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park covers about 35 acres (0.14 km 2) and includes several sites in Atlanta, Georgia related to the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Within the park is his boyhood home, and Ebenezer Baptist Church — the church where King was baptized and both he and his father, Martin ...
Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was an African-American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement. He was the father and namesake of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching from his pulpit in 1960 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Dozier Mobley/Getty ImagesThe high-stakes U.S. Senate race in Georgia catapulted ...
President Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Sunday morning to mark what would have been the 94th birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr. His sermon ...
Atlanta's mayor, Georgia's governor and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock attended the annual Martin Luther King Jr. service at King's old congregation, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The service at ...
Warnock stepped down as the church's senior pastor in 2005. [4] On Father's Day 2005, Warnock was named senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s former congregation; [39] he is the fifth and the youngest person to serve as Ebenezer's senior pastor since its founding.
1960 – "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool", Sunday May 15, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta [14] Possibly the first time King delivered a variation of this sermon, see 27 August 1967 below 1963 – "Eulogy for the Martyred Children" (victims of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ), Wednesday September 18, Birmingham, Alabama [ 15 ]