Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

Series 9: Ebenezer Baptist Church Organizational Records

Series Summary

Repository: Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center

Creator: Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)

Collection Number: Series 9

Title: Series 9: Ebenezer Baptist Church Organizational Records

Date: 1960-1967

Quantity: 0.5 linear feet

Scope and Contents of the Series

The series consists of records about the Ebenezer Baptist Church’s committees, membership, events, housing projects, history, and related operations. Documents describe the organization and functions of the committees of the Women’s Council as well as youth work, public relations, and worship. There are lists of the church’s trustees, family units, and young people whose parents are not members. A partial draft of a letter to members, fragment from an annual report, and blank pledge cards demonstrate the fundraising efforts for the church. The series also has programs, pamphlets, address lists, drafts for publication, an invitation, and related papers for events held at the church including the Diamond Jubilee, church celebration of King’s Nobel Peace Prize, Men’s Day Observance, Choir concert, 5th Anniversary of the Courtesy Guild, Christmas performance, and a family musical performance. Correspondence, photocopies of architectural drawings by Muldawer & Patterson, affidavits, and official forms detail the multi-family housing project proposed by the church to the Federal Housing Administration in 1967. In addition, there is a 1961 letter about the Butler Street Urban Redevelopment project for multi-families from Housing Authority of Atlanta. Besides these documents, there is a chronological sketch of the church from 1886 to 1960, American Baptist Convention report form, the minutes about the Thanksgiving Fellowship Service planned by area churches, a 1967 telegram of support sent to King while in the Birmingham City Jail, and a few financial records.

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The series is arranged alphabetically.

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Index Terms

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Administrative Information

Access is restricted to digital surrogates available in the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

All documents in this collection either are protected by copyright or are the property Morehouse College, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. Permission to consult the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection does not automatically include permission to publish from the Collection. Permission to publish or quote from previously unpublished materials or from materials under copyright must first be obtained from the copyright holder. Requests for permission to publish any of Dr. King’s copyrighted speeches, sermons, books or other writings, in whole or in part, shall be addressed to Intellectual Properties Management, Inc., 449 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, Georgia, 30312.

Materials should be cited as: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. Researchers are encouraged to furnish the Archives with a copy of any publication that cites materials from the Collection.

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Separation List

Photographs separated to appropriate housing in Series 13: Photographs.

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