In widely televised demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, that spring, King was arrested with others after his release, he would lead peaceful protesters in facing violent crackdowns by white police. The year 1963 became pivotal for the movement. In the late 1950s and early 1960s King emerged as the moral voice of the growing civil rights movement to overturn racial segregation in the South. King himself became a pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. After studies at Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University (where he earned a Ph.D.), Dr. As King was fond of pointing out, religion ran strongly in the family his grandfather and great grandfather had also been Baptist preachers. (1929–68) grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, where his father was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King responds to a public statement by eight Birmingham clergymen challenging the demonstrations.Įvents in History at the Time of the Letter A letter written in April 1963 in the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama irst published in pamphlet form in 1963.Īrrested during demonstrations against racial segregation in Birmingham.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |