Ebenezer Baptist Church #1530
$ 10.00
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Ebenezer Baptist Church
"I have held many things in my
hands, and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in
God's hands, that I still possess."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ebenezer Baptist Church represents one of the major influences
in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). His maternal
grandfather, Rev. A. D. Williams, and his father, Rev. Martin Luther
King Sr., were pastors there and the family lived just up Auburn
Avenue from the church until 1941 when they moved to a larger
house on Boulevard, still only a few blocks from Ebenezer.
The young Dr. King attended Sunday School at Ebenezer and
was baptized in the old baptismal in the basement. As he came
of age in the late 1940s, he naturally used Ebenezer as a platform
from which to launch his own preaching career. Because of his
leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, Ebenezer was often the
site of meetings and rallies, including the organizational meetings
that led to the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference in 1957.
