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- Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968-1972 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up steeped in the Christian gospel at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His maternal grandfather and his father had preached here. King was ordained as a minister here and co-pastored with his father from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. It was at Ebenezer that he realized that his rich, impassioned voice could deeply move people.
- 1968-1972
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Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968-1972
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., grew up steeped in the Christian gospel at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His maternal grandfather and his father had preached here. King was ordained as a minister here and co-pastored with his father from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. It was at Ebenezer that he realized that his rich, impassioned voice could deeply move people.
- Postcard, Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, 1958-1965 - The sender of this postcard had just participated in the third of three attempted marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, during March 1965, in support of African-American voting rights. Less than five months after this historic third march -- the only one to actually reach the capitol in Montgomery -- President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
- March 26, 1965
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Postcard, Downtown Montgomery, Alabama, 1958-1965
The sender of this postcard had just participated in the third of three attempted marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, during March 1965, in support of African-American voting rights. Less than five months after this historic third march -- the only one to actually reach the capitol in Montgomery -- President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.