Twenty-One Trains to Washington
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D.C., alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over...
This is a contemporary on service and humility, drawing on Matthew 6:3-4.
On a sweltering August morning in 1963, twenty-one chartered trains rolled into Washington, D. C. , alongside more than two thousand buses and ten chartered airliners. Over 250,000 people converged on the National Mall for what would become one of the most consequential gatherings in American history. The world remembers Martin Luther King Jr. standing at the Lincoln Memorial, delivering his I Have a Dream speech.…
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