February 24, 2025

By Charles Marsh

Director Charles Marsh wrote this essay in January of 2013 about the vision of justice and mercy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Excerpt: “But the story of the civil rights movement that ran from Montgomery to Atlanta, from Albany to Jackson, Rock Hill to Saint Augustine, concluded in shattered dreams and crushed expectations. What happens to ‘the crusade to redeem the soul of America’ when the coalescence of hope and progress dissolves into the brutal ambiguities of history? When the daybreak of freedom gives way to the ‘cry of disappointment,’ as King poignantly wrote in his last book, Where Do We Go From Here?“