Most white evangelicals objected to King’s civil disobedience as an affront to law and order, and a denial of the sufficiency of the gospel. President Armerding quickly disavowed any support for King’s methods and noted that the college had not sponsored the memorial service but merely allowed the community to use its chapel.27 Even as white evangelical colleges launched a new era of black recruitment, expressing sympathy with black aspirations risked alienating their white constituency.
