Word: pastorally
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King's pride in being the pastor of a "big folks church" was the inevitable result of his background. His family was situated in such a position in the hierarchy of black Atlanta as to have indoctrinated him with this naive reverence of people with "all the right things" behind their names and other basic American middle class values, as well as those particular perversions with which blacks have buttressed those values, such as an internal pecking order based on color-the whiter the righter. Williams says that "King himself apparently had some color hang-up... Of King's personal...
...Senate. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the place where the coming big men of the black Baptist organization served; it was a step on the escalator... Given King's up-bringing and education, and his father's plans for him, King would very probably have refused to pastor a lesser church." Northern-educated and ambitious, King had gone to Montgomery with a sense of secure possession of a successful future within the structure of the Baptist church and along the lines which success for Southern blacks had been determined since Reconstruction. However, what had not been planned...
Threatened by the effect the exposure of the FBI information would have had upon his career, the Martin Luther King of Montgomery, the 26-year-old pastor of Dexter, would unquestionably have kept his compromise with the system. He would have opted for protecting his name and that of his family in the eyes of the black puritans of his congregation and his class. But in the years that had passed, he had collected more than merely a Nobel and nine arrests. He had acquired a sense of responsibility to a greater constituency, one unbounded by color, class, or nationality...
...road-show entourage is the core of Humbard's cathedral staff of 150. It includes Rex; his wife and soloist; his sister Leona, another singer; Leona's husband, Associate Pastor Wayn Jones; two sons, Rex Jr. and Don, who share television production tasks at home and sing on the road; Public Relations Man Johnny Hope, who sings and plays rhythm guitar; and a pianist and music arranger, Don Koker, who also sings...
...Calvin B. Marshall, outspoken Brooklyn pastor (TIME, April 6, 1970) who is chairman of B.E.D.C.'s steering committee, argues that one of B.E.D.C.'s virtues is the ability to "shoot down bureaucracy and get some dollars moving." Many of the dollars have been moving in the direction of one of B.E.D.C.'s main projects, the Black Star Press of Detroit. Its first book, by Forman, endorses "armed struggle and the seizure of state power...