On a Sunday morning in Atlanta, Georgia, the familiar hymns at Ebenezer Baptist Church were tragically silenced by gunfire. It was June 30, 1974, and Deacon Edward Boykin, a 69-year-old Black man, was attending the service as he had for thirty-nine years. That day, a 23-year-old man from Ohio named Marcus Wayne Chenault, Jr. rose from the pews, brandishing two revolvers.
As Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., played 'The Lord's Prayer' on the organ, Chenault b
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