The Voice That Went Ahead of the Army
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
This is a contemporary on worship and inspiration, drawing on 2 Chronicles 20:21-22.
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. , waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to speak. But before King ever reached the podium, Mahalia Jackson's voice rolled across the National Mall. She sang "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned," and those deep, trembling notes did something no speech could — they prepared the ground.…
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