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Williams was "a great preacher" who preached "a social justice gospel," Ridgeway said. Williams founded one of the first African American high schools in Atlanta and helped found the Atlanta chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ;NAACP). "He really brought Ebenezer to its influence in Atlanta,". Ridgeway says.

Why did the author include this information about Martin Luther Kingdes grandfather?

A - to demonstrate the need for civil rights organizations such as the NAACP

B - to describe the King family’s long history of social justice work at Ebenezer

C - to emphasize how Ebenezer’s pastors supported education for Black children

D - to show how King was raised in a church community that supported his work

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.