Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in chapel at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on April 19, 1961. The message was entitled, “The Church on the Frontier of Racial Tensions.” This message is available at Said At Southern. For more information about this historical visit to Southern Seminary please visit the Southern Seminary
archives website.
The speech is more remarkable considering the context. Southern Baptists were not unified in their posture toward the Civil Rights movement and in 1961 the outcome was far from certain. In this speech, you will hear Dr. King cast his vision for the church’s role in racial reconciliation.
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