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`We’re Not in Heaven Yet’: Legacy WA profile on Rev. McKinney

`We’re Not in Heaven Yet’: Legacy WA profile on Rev. McKinney

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his 1961 speech in Seattle. Rev. McKinney invited King to come to Seattle (Photo courtesy Washington State Archives) Our Legacy Washington program recently launched an important new profile on the Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, civil rights pioneer and former pastor of Seattle’s Mount Zion Baptist Church. The profile, entitled “We’re not in Heaven yet,” is here. In honor of Black History Month, we have provided an excerpt of the first few pages of…

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