Ebenezer Baptist Church

…as pastor of the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. The family lived on Auburn Avenue, otherwise known as “Sweet Auburn,” the bustling “Black Wall Street,” home to some of the country’s largest and most prosperous Black businesses and Black churches in the years before the civil rights movement. Young…

…a map, along with the Ebenezer Baptist Church (where King was co-pastor with his father) and the SCLC headquarters. Observers have speculated that Ray may have decided that killing King would somehow benefit Wallace’s candidacy or prolong segregation. Undoubtedly, Ray was well aware of King’s involvement in the sanitation strike…

…senior pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the man who had inspired him as a teenager—Martin Luther King, Jr.—had once been co-pastor. Warnock was 35 years old, the youngest person ever named senior pastor at Ebenezer. From the pulpit, he took up the causes of voting…