by James Melson | May 7, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
The Birmingham Campaign of 1963 has gone down in history as one of the great successes of the modern civil rights movement. Yet at the time it seemed headed for failure as police brutality under Bull Connor and Klan violence against the black community combined to...
by James Melson | Apr 30, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
Last Monday our post recalled the civil rights campaign in Birmingham, AL in the spring of 1963. The purpose of the campaign was to desegregate public accommodations in perhaps the most resistant city in the nation at that time. Resistance came not only in the forms...
by James Melson | Apr 23, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
Fifty five years ago in the spring of 1963, a brave and fearless black pastor in Birmingham, AL named Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth invited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to come to that city to help organize a campaign against...
by James Melson | Apr 16, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
During this season of Easter, the gospel for yesterday was Luke 24: 36-48 in which the resurrected Jesus appears to his disciples. At first they were surprised and terrified and thought they were seeing a ghost. Jesus calms and reassures them by...
by James Melson | Apr 10, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral. After his death, it did not take long for his life and ministry to be turned into a domesticated myth that focused solely on his “dream” for racial equality. What got left...
by James Melson | Apr 2, 2018 | 2018, Weekly Reflection
Wednesday, April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He was in Memphis, TN to lead a march in support of striking sanitation workers. The night before his death, he gave his last speech at Mason Temple. It is known to many as...
