Ebenezer Baptist Church
Redbrick sanctuary where a civil rights leader preached beside his father, and where the movement's founding meeting was held.
This guide to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta centers on a February 1968 sermon called The Drum Major Instinct, in which Martin Luther King Jr. imagined, two months before his death, the words he wanted said over his own casket. It follows what his widow, Coretta Scott King, chose to do with that recording at his funeral in this same sanctuary. The guide reaches back to 1886 and the formerly enslaved founder who started the congregation, through two generations of the King family in its pulpit, to the 1957 meeting held here that founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Sit in one of the rear pews to hear how the room carries a voice.
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