Tag: Archbishop Iakovos

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

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Public Orthodoxy

January 16, 2017

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Church and Modern Society, Ethics

Albert Raboteau, Archbishop Iakovos, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Race

by Albert J. Raboteau Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, the son of Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King’s childhood was happy and secure, though all too early he was made aware of the hurts inflicted by racism. Like his father, grandfather, and […]
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