When Eight Clergymen Called for Patience
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Days earlier, eight white clergymen...
This is a contemporary on justice and prophetic voice, drawing on Amos 5:24.
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Days earlier, eight white clergymen had published "A Call for Unity" in the Birmingham News, urging King to abandon his protests and wait for the courts to deliver change. They called his demonstrations "unwise and untimely." King read their statement in his jail cell.…
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