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Remembering Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney

Remembering Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney

Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, a giant of Seattle’s civil-rights movement and longtime pastor of the city’s Mount Zion Baptist Church, died Saturday in an assisted-living facility. He was 91. The Legacy Washington program of the Secretary of State’s office interviewed Rev. Dr. McKinney and his family for an extensive biography published in 2016. Its title, a quotation from one of the reverend’s many moving public addresses, is We’re Not In Heaven Yet. You can read it here and leave…

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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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