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Season for Nonviolence 2012: February 10 |
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Friday, 10 February 2012 00:00 |
Season for Nonviolence 2012
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January 30 – April 4
February 10
King speaks with a building janitor in Chicago
Deed
Bill Rutherford was still new to King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference when he and King arrived 30 minutes late for a crucial SCLC meeting at Ebenezer church. “We walked in,” said Rutherford, “and there was the janitor of the church, pushing his broom, and Martin said, ‘How’s your wife?’ He said, ‘Well, she ain’t doing too well. Her back’s bothering her . . .’ Martin said, ‘Really? It didn’t get any better from the medicine?’ Anyway, I stood there; there are 300 people sitting in that church, waiting on the leader, and he’s inquiring about the janitor’s wife’s back. . . . I was so impressed.” (David Garrow, Bearing the Cross)
ThoughtIn personal relations, he was a democratic man,” said a civil rights demonstrator of King. “He was relaxed, easy. There are people who are number one who don’t let you forget it for one second; he would let you forget it as long as you wanted to.” (David Garrow, Bearing the Cross)
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