#ebenezer baptist church

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[I[f we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now the judgment of God is upon us, and we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

—Martin Luther King Jr, A Christmas Sermon on Peace, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, Dec 24, 1967

[todaysdocument]

Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter sing with Martin Luther King, Sr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young and other civil rights leader during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

Collection JC-WHSP: White House Staff Photographers CollectionSeries: Jimmy Carter's Presidential PhotographsFile Unit: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter - At the Ebenezer Baptist Church

This color photograph shows from left to right Martin Luther King, Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, President Jimmy Carter, and others holding hands while singing.  In the background there are other people, an American flag, and part of a pipe organ. 

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[rabbitcruiser]

Martin Luther King, Jr. , American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate was born on January 15, 1929.

[40ouncesandamule]

Tactics pioneered in the periphery always eventually come home

[twixnmix]

Coretta Scott King with her daughters Yolanda King and Bernice King at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on November 8, 1964. 

Photos by Flip Schulke

[nateconnolly]

Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK’s church The death of Cornelius Taylor on Thursday afternoon resulted from an effort to reduce the visibility of people without shelter near the city’s historic Ebenezer Baptist church as an accommodation for crowds expected in the area to celebrate King this weekend and on Monday, the federal holiday dedicated to the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.

Here's the government's statement:

“Our department routinely clears encampments that pose health and public safety concerns, always following days of outreach to connect unsheltered individuals with housing and support services,” the department said.

You regularly raid homeless communities and bulldoze the tents of people who live on the streets. That's your excuse. You regularly raid homeless communities and you make that part of your public statement about the innocent life you crushed for a fucking holiday about love and hope. You choose to bring that up.

[saywhat-politics]

The daughter of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. warned Monday of "sinister forces" and "some disturbing things to come" just hours before President-elect Trump retook office.

Why it matters: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change commemorated MLK Day on Monday as Trump is expected to sign a slew of executive orders ending diversity and inclusion initiatives in the federal government and laying the groundwork for mass deportations.

Bernice A. King, MLK's daughter, told an audience at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church that advocates "will remain woke" against rollbacks of civil rights gains as the new administration's agenda takes hold.

The big picture: The federal holiday commemorating King's birthday and the presidential inauguration fall on the same day — a paradox that civil rights leaders say underscores the nation's deep divide.

What they're saying: "It has become a major factor for so many people because of the notable contrast in the two men who are sharing the same space in today's news cycle and on today's Gregorian calendar," King said.

[tododeku-or-bust]

Unhoused man in Atlanta murdered after being run over with a bulldozer just yesterday during a homeless encampment sweep. A sweep, right in front of the famed Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK preached. If there's not a better reflection of what this timeline looks like in this rotten country... His dream remains far away...

Idk. I had a lot more things to say and I find I can't say any of them coherently. Just a whole lot of evil shown in such callousness and negligence towards the lives of others.

[atlurbanist]

Heartbreaking. A day after MLK's birthday, a block from Ebenezer Baptist where he was minister, a homeless person is killed by a public works vehicle as the city clears an encampment.

"Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children"

[petervintonjr]

"Our mother has also behind the scene setting forth those motherly cares, the lack of which leaves a missing link in life."  --Martin Luther King, Jr., from a 1950 essay while at Crozer Theological Seminary

It occurs to me that no comprehensive observance of Martin Luther King Day is truly possible without at least some understanding of the man's formative years. Accordingly I'm devoting today's lesson to the study of --and deep appreciation for-- the life and the accomplishments of his mother, Alberta Williams King. The dual tragedies of both her son's murder and her own, often cloud the merits of the lives that came before.

Born in 1904 Atlanta, Georgia, Alberta Christine Williams was herself the only surviving child of Jennie Celeste Williams and the Rev. Adam Daniel Williams of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (yes, that very church, which probably merits an entire entry of its own). Alberta earned a teaching certificate from what is now known as Hampton University in 1924, and married her longtime boyfriend Michael (later Martin) King, Sr. on Thanksgiving Day, 1926. She had intended to embark on a career in teaching but, at the time, the local school board did not permit married women to teach. The couple lived in the Williams home and had three children: Willie Christine (later Farris), born in 1927; Michael (later Martin) Jr., in 1929; and finally Alfred Daniel ("A.D."), in 1930. Martin Jr., would later write at length about his close bond with his mother, and also about the unusual closeness to his two siblings, and would even playfully recollect that his father Martin Sr. "happens to be the kind who just won't argue." While justifiably proud of her children, Alberta was by no means content to settle solely into the life of a mother, and earned her BA from Morris Brown College in 1938. By this time her husband had succeeded his father-in-law as the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, and had begun using the name Martin --as did his namesake. Alberta had confidently stepped the role of a pastor's wife and not only directed the choir but would also serve as its organist, from 1932 to literally the rest of her life.

Perhaps more significantly than even her church life, though, was her active membership in the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. No stranger to the cause of civil rights, Alberta and her husband marched as early as 1930, in protest against segregation laws and Black voter suppression. It is sometimes asserted (even today!) that "true Christians" by definition cannot possibly be advocates for social justice because that would conflict with their beliefs --a bad-faith and frankly racially-motivated argument; one usually put forward by white people whose status quo is being inconvenienced, or who are having their narrative challenged. Alberta was having NONE of that, and her commitment to equal justice under the law clearly had an impact on her children --particularly her eldest son! In the years following Martin, Jr.'s ordination and his emergence into the public spotlight, Alberta frequently appeared alongside her famous son at many of his public appearances, became a target of many of the same threats, and unapologetically advocated for improved voting rights and an end to segregation.

This instillation was clear in her Alberta's other two children as well --perhaps to the surprise of no-one, in the wake of his older brother's April 4, 1968 assassination, youngest sibling Rev. Alfred Daniel (A.D.) solemnly stepped into the role of pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, but horrifyingly this tenure would not last --A.D. drowned in a swimming pool accident a mere fifteen months later. Thus bearing the agonizing weight of now having buried both of their sons, Alberta and Martin Sr. quietly began to step away from public life, but renewed their commitment to their church and of continued service to humankind.

But worse was still to come.

\While playing the organ during Sunday services at her beloved Ebenezer Baptist, on June 30, 1974, Alberta was shot (martyred, really) by a self-proclaimed "Hebrew Israelite" assassin with an unreasoning hate for Black ministers. She, along with another church deacon, died later that day at Grady Hospital. She was just shy of the age of 70. "I thought I had made it through the worst days of my life, recounts daughter Christine King Farris. "I was wrong."

Now more than 40 years after her murder, there has been a renewed interest in Alberta' role as the "First Lady" of civil rights, and a desire to not gloss over her legacy, and what she represented. Visit Alberta's page at the Martin Luther, King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, at: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-alberta-williams

[valkyries-things]

ALBERTA WILLIAMS KING // ACTIVIST

“She was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr., and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.”

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[Video ID: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking inside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in full color footage from 1967. He says, ‘But I must confess that that dream that I had that day has, at many points, turned into a nightmare. Now I’m not one to lose hope. I keep on hoping. I still have faith in the future. But I’ve had to analyze many things over the last few years, and I would say over the last few months, I’ve gone through a lot of soul searching and agonizing moments. And I’ve come to see that we have many more difficult days ahead, and some of the old optimism was a little superficial, and now it must be tempered with a solid realism. And I think the realistic fact is that we still have a long, long way to go…’ /End ID]

[rabbitcruiser]

Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence on October 14, 1964.

[lboogie1906]

Minister Byron Louis Cage (December 15, 1962) is a gospel recording artist.

Inspired by the singing of the late Rev. Donald Vails and Thomas Whitfield, he began singing gospel music as a teenager. He attended Morehouse College, where he was a member of the Morehouse College Glee Club. He joined New Birth Cathedral in Atlanta. He served as music director for Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

He married pediatric dentist, Dr. Sonya Windham Cage (2004).

He served as minister of music at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington, Maryland (1990s-2014–16 (estimated). In (2012) he served as the minister of music at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. In (2018) he became an ordained minister at New Mercies Christian Church in Lilburn, Georgia, and serves as the minister of music. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi