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...After her husband's slaying in 1968, King worked to establish the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, which opened as it stands today in 1982, a complex that includes King's tomb, his boyhood home and the historical Ebenezer Baptist Church, part of which is a federal historic park project. The roots of the center started a year after her husband's assassination, begun in the basement of Dr. King's home...
...husband, Martin Luther King, Jr,, was a man who had hoped to be a Baptist preacher to a large, Southern, urban congregation," she wrote in the introduction to her 1983 book, 'The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.' "Instead, by the time he died in 1968, he had led millions of people into shattering forever the Southern system of segregation of the races.... Above all, he brought a new and higher dimension of human dignity to black people's lives...
...also have been heeding criticism back in the States, some of the most scathing from fellow evangelical leaders who suggested that he is now a marginal figure-despite a television audience reported to be 825,000 strong. Richard Land, a key figure in the powerful and conservative Southern Baptist Convention, pronounced himself "appalled...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) passed its final grants package of the semester and appointed a technology coordinator in a brief hour-long meeting last night. The council’s 10th grants package allocated $15,437 to 64 campus organizations, including $290 to the Asian Baptist Student Koinonia for Friday night bible study. In late November, the council voted to suspend its bylaws and award a grant to the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF) despite the group’s constitution, which stipulates that its executive board members be Christian. In the past, the council has not awarded grants to organizations...
...quick volley of cell phone calls sent the news to the Sago Baptist Church, where friends and family members had gathered. Hundreds of people then leapt to their feet and surged out the front door...