THIS DAY IN HISTORY

January 30 - A Sad Day In History Pick a sad event from the following list and learn more from the links at the bottom. Gandhi is assassinated Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Winston Churchill was Laid to Rest   Gandhi Assassinated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandhi  Hitler Named Chancellor of Germany https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany  Winston Churchill Laid To Rest https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/state-funeral-of-sir-winston-churchill/

January 15th is coming, the day we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Around this time of year, as an old white man, I find it useful to reread a letter addressed to these old white men back in April 1963: C.C.J. Carpenter, Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton J. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, George M. Murray, Edward V. Ramage, Earl Stallings. They are the Eight White Clergymen who wrote “A Call for Unity,”* an open letter that criticized the Birmingham protests, and are the implied readers of King’s “Letter from A Birmingham Jail.” King refers to them as “My Dear Fellow Clergymen,” and later on as “my Christian and Jewish brothers.” These men were Birmingham religious leaders from the Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist churches as well as a Jewish temple; during the Birmingham protests, they met to discuss their concerns and ended up publishing their open letter, in which they questioned the timing of the protests and recommended that African ...