Tag: civil rights
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Letter to the students and faculty of Vanderbilt Divinity School about the expulsion of James Lawson, March 15, 1960
March 15, 1960 To the Faculty and Students of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School: We, faculty members and students of the Yale University Divinity School Association, are deeply concerned with the events that have recently placed you in a position of difficult decision and decisive witness. We fully support you in your protests against the […]
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Martin Luther King, Farewell Statement for All India Radio, March 9, 1959 (Audio)
Farewell Statement for All India Radio Listen to Audio here Leaders in and out of government, organizations—particularly the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi and the Quaker Centre—and many homes and families have done their utmost to make our short stay both pleasant and instructive. We have learned a lot. We are not rash enough to presume that […]
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The Garland March: From Selma to Montgomery, 1965
The flash and flutter of a lens can capture a moment in eternity. In the photograph below, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, wear garlands in the Hindu tradition. It is 1965 and they are marching from Selma to Montgomery. I am unsure which of […]