Back in the 1980s when I was teaching at Eastern College, I became good friends with my student Brian Hamilton. He was from Main and went on to study in NYC at Union Seminary, The New School, and then he finished up at Eastern Baptist Seminary. Later on he and his wife Ruth began pastoring…

When Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 I was living and teaching there. I taught at what is now Rhodes College and also at Lemoyne-Owen College. The latter was a traditional Black College. Dr. King had come to Memphis to support the local Sanitation Worker strike. They were trying to get a union…