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The Importance of the Father in the History of the Ebenezer Baptist Church
The foundation of the Ebenezer Baptist Church was misattributed to Martin Luther King's father. Do you think it's like the repetition of the name made it complicated? Or do you think that there's something a little bit more prejudicial about historians traditionally sort of even subconsciously leaning toward the importance of the father? I mean, it's patriarchy. Definitely. It's definitely this intersection of patriarchy and racism," she says.
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