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...April 4, 1985, about 5,000 students gathered in Harvard Yard for a protest organized by SASC, which had invited Reverend Jesse I. Jackson to speak to the riled crowds. Jackson had written a letter to Bok a month earlier in which he urged the University to divest...
...conclude the event, Reverend Jonathan C. Page, an Epps Fellow in Memorial Church, led the group in breaking bread outside University Hall to symbolize the basic sustenance that everyone needs...
...Rabbinical Assembly meeting in New York, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel extended an invitation to the keynote speaker, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He asked that Dr. King join him in April for a Passover Seder in his family’s New York apartment. On April 4th, only a week before King was to sit at Rabbi Heschel’s table, James Earl Ray shot and killed Reverend King outside his Memphis hotel room...
From these many voices, two primary characters emerge to drive the dialogue. Reverend Hickman is “God’s Trombone,” a powerful preacher who discovers the same joy in the vigor and spirituality of his preaching as he had in making “heartfelt patterns of soul-felt sound” on his trombone. Unlike the well-defined character of Hickman, white senator Adam Sunraider—originally named “Bliss” by Hickman, his former foster parent—eludes definition. Little of what Ellison left behind provides...
...with all I know about the things you had to do to be you and remain yourself—Yes! You are one of the few who ever earned the right to be called ‘Father.’” In this moment, the reverend discovers his power to forge his own meaning from a confused reality...