Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Obama celebration photos
November 5, 2008 at 3:01 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsLess than an hour after Pres.-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park, more than 300 people gathered early Wednesday morning at the intersection of Jackson Street and Auburn Avenue outside the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church — the same house of worship where Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. preached and organized.
Chants of “Yes, We Did,” drum circles and blaring car horns motivated the crowd of young and old and all races and ethnicities. There was even the electric slide.
I left at 1:45 a.m. and people were still going strong. Here are just a few of the photos. We’ll post more tomorrow as well as snapshots and reports of the Georgia GOP party held in Buckhead.
Much more to come in the morning.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:14 am
[...] in anger — they were expressions of joy. (For more evidence of the same thing, take a look at Thomas Wheatley’s marvelous photos from the celebration early this morning in front of Ebenezer Baptist Church. That’s one [...]