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...restrictions King and Lawson desired: a prescribed route, no weapons and narrow ranks to give the marshals wide space on the flanks to keep the spectators away. This relief started a fresh buzz of determination for weekend preparations. They should all get ready for dinner at the home of Reverend Billy Kyles, a well-known Memphis minister, King said, and Officer Richmond, a Memphis policeman keeping King under surveillance, noted through binoculars at 5:40 his brisk walk with Abernathy upstairs to their Room...
...Reverend Kyles left Jackson's songfest and knocked at Room 306 to hurry King along. Abernathy played him for a sign of deliverance. "Why don't you do my revival?" he asked Kyles, who adroitly dodged, saying he thought he was scheduled to preach in Columbus, Ohio. King chimed in to needle Kyles about the relative status of his invitations. "Anybody'd rather come to Atlanta than go to Columbus," he said. He shifted tone to inquire how Memphis churches achieved such unity behind the sanitation workers, who were not members of the prestige congregations, but Abernathy reopened preachers' banter...
Sensing the growing emergency, assistant police chief Henry Lux, marching within 20 feet of King, lent his bullhorn to James Lawson. "This is Reverend Lawson speaking!" shouted the voice above the chaos. "I want everybody who's in the march, in the movement, to turn around and go back to the church." Lawson joined a heated debate in the middle of Main Street, surrounded by pleas for calm as well as battle cries of "Black Power!" and "Burn it down, baby!" King was torn between his pledge to shun violence and his promise never to abandon the movement faithful. Most...
...choir dedicated to black creativity and spirituality performs its annual Christmas Concert. Memorial Church. 7 p.m. Free. (CNC)“Peter J. Gomes” and the Wolf. Through Dec. 10. The Bach Society Orchestra performance includes “Peter and the Wolf” with The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes and “Sonatina” by Derrick Wang ’06. Paine Hall. 8 p.m. $10 general admission, $6 students. (CNC)Inaugural Dance Center Concert. Through Dec. 10. Contemporary Dance Ensemble performs Jose Limon’s “Suite from...
...action. Executive Director of the Phillips Brooks House Association Gene Corbin ’55 said the Harvard community needs to become more engaged in the relief effort. “We must find it within ourselves to do something more than grieve,” Corbin said. Reverend Chaplain Mark D. W. Edington made a similar appeal. “This is not a religious service, nor by any means a funeral it is a remembrance and a call to action,” he said. Throughout the vigil, many audience members bore solemn faces and had tears...