http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_693_Brewster.mp3 Gurdon Brewster witnessed the civil rights movement while living with Martin Luther King, Jr.'s father, Daddy King. Plone 2.0 http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_693_Brewster.mp3/logo.jpg http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_693_Brewster.mp3 <h4>A Summer with the King Family</h4><h4></h4><p class="imageleft"><img class="image-left" src="resolveuid/029279f827fb51837a66380518e6a962" alt="Gurdon Brewster" height="100" width="100" />Gurdon Brewster - photo: Jeffrey Foote</p><p>Gurden Brewster spent time with the family of Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was a young man. In the summer of 1961 when he was a seminary student, Gurdon volunteered to work at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He stayed with Dr. King's father, Daddy King.<br /></p><p>As a white northerner in the South, Gurdon struggled with two kinds of discrimination that summer - from both African-American parishioners and his fellow white clergymen. He talks with Dick Gordon about his many close conversations with Daddy King over the breakfast table - and what it's like to watch today's inauguration having been through the civil rights movement.<br /></p><ul><li>See a <a title="Gurdon Brewster's Gallery" href="resolveuid/73d49aa53678b4c6b623c1f8f3383ad2" target="_self">photo gallery of Gurdon's time with Daddy King</a></li><li>Learn about <a title="Music from the interview with Gurdon Brewster" href="resolveuid/d53ecef6e42ae7877f8cdee8d2db12ed" target="_self">the music played during Gurdon's interview</a></li><li>Learn about <a href="http://www.maryknollmall.org/description.cfm?ISBN=978-1-57075-728-0" target="_self">Gurdon's book, <i>No Turning Back: My Summer with Daddy King</i></a></li></ul><a class="addbtn" href="http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=608cc948ba9b" target="_self">Contact Us</a><a><br /></a><p></p> Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:30:00