Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels

King preaches “Paul’s Letter to the American Christians” at Ebenezer while his father preaches at Dexter. 

At noon King delivers “Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta for the local NAACP.

King preaches “Loving Your Enemies” at Dexter and presides over the ordination of deacons. He spends the summer commuting between Boston and Montgomery.

“What is Man?” Thirty-third annual memorial service, Pullman Porters’ Benefit Association of America, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

King preaches at the Reverend Leonard G. Carr’s Vine Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

King meets with the pulpit committee at Dexter.

King is in Lansing, Michigan, to preach at his uncle Joel Lawrence King’s church in the morning and evening. He also addresses the local branch of the NAACP in the afternoon.

King, Jr., accompanied by his mother, Alberta Williams King, sings at a meeting of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia.

At the invitation of the Reverend A. A. Banks, Jr., King preaches “Rediscovering Lost Values” at Second Baptist Church in Detroit.

King delivers a trial sermon, “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.