Join Jamaal Brown of the Gist of Freedom as he lectures on Protesters In the Pulpit. The late Rev. Jacob S. Blake, grandfather of Jacob Blake pastored Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church successfully led his community during the Civil Rights Movement.Today, the “fruits of his labor” remain in Evanston, — including two senior housing buildings, the Ebenezer-Primm Towers and Jacob Blake Manor, that provide subsidized apartments to seniors.In his time at Ebenezer AME — the first Black church in Evanston, IL founded 138 years ago — Blake Sr. was an active voice in the community.During the 1960s and ‘70s, he led civil rights marches in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death and spearheaded efforts to change Evanston’s housing laws.More than 40 years after the death of the Rev. Jacob Blake his grandson is at the center of the Black Lives Matter movement protests over him being shot 7 times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.Talking Points: Isaac Myers and The Colored Caulkers Trade Union Society, he organized a cooperative company that would own a shipyard and railroad. Rev. Walter Rice Tuskegee of the North Bordentown School in New Jersey now a Juvenile detention center.Rev. Sandy Cornish  and The Cornish Memorial AME Zion Church became the richest black man in Key West by selling his produceDenmark Vessey  and Mother Emmanuel ChurchMartin Luther King and the sanitation worker's strike, his last march.