Danneman, Yetta

Marcus and Yetta Danneman, a Jewish couple, owned a grocery store in Atlanta, Ga., from 1939 to 1986. Their grocery store's parking lot abutted the parking lot of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Sr.'s family attended and pastored. Marcus and Yetta Danneman's grocery store primarily served the African American community, including the King family. Yetta Danneman also opened a dress shop in the neighborhood. Marcus Danneman was a pallbearer at the funeral of Martin Luther King Sr.

From the guide to the Marcus and Yetta Danneman Papers on the King Family, 1961-2006, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)