A Summer With The King Family
Tuesday, January 20 2009
A Summer with the King Family
Gurdon Brewster - photo: Jeffrey Foote
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.
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.
- See a photo gallery of Gurdon's time with Daddy King
- Learn about the music played during Gurdon's interview
- Learn about Gurdon's book, No Turning Back: My Summer with Daddy King
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