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November 2, 2010

Volume 127, Issue #22

Lectionary

Sunday, November 14, 2010: Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 21:5-19

It was the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, and it looked as if the civil rights movement would suffer yet another defeat. The powers that be had more jail space than the civil rights workers had people. But then one Sunday, reports historian Taylor Branch, 2,000 young people came out of worship at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church and prepared to march.

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