Six years after Reverend King praised the National Council of Churches for its leadership on civil rights, and in the same year that the Christian Century published his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Atlanta’s Lovett School, affiliated with the New York–based Episcopal Church, notified Reverend and Mrs. King that their six-year-old son, Martin Luther King III, was being denied admission on the basis of his race.
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