Posted on February 12, 2009, 12:28 pm, by profpam, under
King.
We read a bit of King’s “Our Struggle” this week. King speaks of “injustice” and “self-respect”. He writes that “many black men lost self-respect.” He ends the essay by saying that the conflict really isn’t about the buses.
Yet we believe that, if the method we use in dealing with equality in the buses can eliminate [...]
The day after President Obama’s inauguration there was a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd, the Dean of the Cathedral, in his introductory remarks said that Dr. King’s last Sunday sermon, March 31, 1968, was at that very Cathedral, in that very pulpit, I would imagine. [...]