From King to Warnock: How the Ebenezer Baptist Church became a center of Black organizing
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The church where Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the civil rights movement just sent its pastor, Raphael Warnock, to the U.S. Senate.
The high-stakes U.S. Senate race in Georgia catapulted the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church back into the spotlight. For 135 years, the church played a vital role in the fight against racism and the civil rights movement. It was the spiritual home of the civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.