“In the heat of Atlanta’s April, a Baptist preacher was honored and buried…in irony and agony consistent with his life and death,” begins WWD’s coverage of the April 1968 funeral of the Rev. Dr.

Funeral services were held at Ebenezer Baptist Church on March 16 for Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist and sister-in-law of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She died in Atlanta on ...