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The Detroit Walk to Freedom, planned by Franklin and members of New Bethel, took place on June 23, 1963. The protest had 125,000 persons, was the largest civil rights demonstration in the country's history to that point, and culminated in a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at Cobo Hall. [11] [12] [13]
Wyatt Tee Walker (August 16, 1928 – January 23, 2018) was an African-American pastor, national civil rights leader, theologian, and cultural historian. He was a chief of staff for Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1958 became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Martin Luther King Jr.'s conception of what Black Americans had to overcome was shaped by visits to Detroit that began when he was a teenager.
In 1957, he joined Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Council as one of its founding members. [ 1 ] In 1958, Hood moved to a position as senior pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church (now the Plymouth United Church of Christ) in Detroit, Michigan , taking the helm of a congregation with roots going back to 1919.
The Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. and his father before him served as pastors, is certainly no stranger to hosting prominent funerals — from King himself to Rayshard ...
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
His vision was to occupy land on Seven Mile near his church that was still vacant slightly more than a decade after the 1967 riots. Rev. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church.
Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was an African-American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement. He was the father and namesake of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975.