Bells Toll and Shofars Blow in Memory of Four Innocents Who Lost Their Lives to Hate
In memory of the deaths of Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins
In memory of the deaths of Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins
“Naturally, I believe in changing the heart,“ he said. “I happen to be a Baptist preacher and that puts me in the heart-changing business...”
Young is celebrating his 90th birthday with a four-day celebration March 9–12 dedicated to “peace and reconciliation.”
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed and held in solitary confinement for eight days along with other organizers of the Good Friday nonviolent protest. Their purpose was to draw attention to intolerable and unchanging conditions in Birmingham, Alabama.
Eight years before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech where he shared his dream for America, that dream was born in the city of Montgomery, Alabama.