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The famous "I Have a Dream" address was delivered in August 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Less well-remembered are the early sermons of that young, 25-year-old pastor who first began preaching at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. [3]
1964: "Bodies upon the gears" speech by American activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio. 1965: The American Promise by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, urging the United States Congress to pass a voting rights act prohibiting discrimination in voting on account of race and color in wake of the Bloody Sunday.
Here are 150 unique and heartfelt ways to share your gratitude on Pastor Appreciation Day 2024. Related: 35 Daily Prayers To Encourage and Guide You as You Walk by Faith.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century.
Bernice A. King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., has called out Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who delivered President Donald Trump’s inaugural prayer, and others who she says ...
Thompson said he would personally witness Trump’s Thursday night acceptance speech. He was impressed, he said, that Trump met for hours with families of U.S. service members who had been killed ...
On August 28, 2017, the fifty-fourth anniversary of the March on Washington at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Sharpton organized the Ministers March for Justice, promising to bring a thousand members of the clergy to Washington, D.C., to deliver a "unified moral rebuke" to President Donald Trump. [78]
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