Three Hundred and Eighty-One Days of Walking
On December 5, 1955, forty thousand Black commuters in Montgomery, Alabama, woke before dawn and did something extraordinary — they walked. The day before, Rosa...
This is a contemporary on perseverance and unity, drawing on Galatians 6:9.
On December 5, 1955, forty thousand Black commuters in Montgomery, Alabama, woke before dawn and did something extraordinary — they walked. The day before, Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, and the community decided that enough was enough. A twenty-six-year-old pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the packed pews of Holt Street Baptist Church that evening and called the people to peaceful, persistent resistance.…
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