A Grain of Wheat in Memphis
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had...
This is a contemporary on sacrifice and hope, drawing on John 12:24.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to stand with thirteen hundred sanitation workers — men who carried simple signs reading "I AM A MAN" — striking for dignity and a living wage after two colleagues, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death in a malfunctioning garbage truck.…
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