Edward Boykin

Death by Force

Edward Boykin, a 67-year-old African American deacon, was tragically killed on June 30, 1974, in Atlanta, Georgia. The incident occurred at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a significant location in the civil rights movement, where Boykin was attending a service. On that fateful day, Marcus Wayne Chenault, a young man from Ohio, entered the church and opened fire during the service. Chenault's attack resulted in the deaths of Edward Boykin and Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and ...Read More

the Guardian: Martin Luther King's mother slain in church: From the archive, 1 July 1974

Mother of Dr. King Is Killed in Church; Atlanta Deacon Slain (Published 1974)

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