For more information on our Juneteenth events, follow the link here. This event is sponsored by the Juneteenth Planning Committee and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Brad Roth and Ron Brown, will be our presenters. When King was criticized by a group of white clergymen who blamed him for precipitating the violence, he penned a subdued, but passionate letter of reply to his. This event is open to the Wayne State community and broader public. Martin Luther King Jr.’s The Letter from a Birmingham Jail, including the section in which he wrote the Negroes’ great stumbling block in the stride toward. The prosperous King family lived on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. Professor Brown will describe the Letter as an embodiment of black liberation theology, emphasizing the role of biblical scriptures in establishing the spiritual and moral foundation for the pursuit of racial justice, and will further highlight the document’s importance to our celebration of Juneteenth. Were he alive he would be 94, the same age as Noam Chomsky. Professor Roth will describe the Letter’s impact on secular theoretical approaches to civil disobedience and the authority of law. penned from his jail cell a document that would become a classic of American political thought, a blueprint for civic resistance to injustice perpetrated under color of law. In April 1963, amid a major civil disobedience campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, Rev. King writes, We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
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