Gurdon Brewster
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No Turning back - My Summer with Daddy King
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Author: Gurdon Brewster
Author: Gurdon Brewster
" In the summer of 1961, Brewster, a white seminary student from the North, worked at Ebenzer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where both Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were pastors. In this moving memoir, he recalls his first encounters with Atlanta's segregated restrooms, resturants, and public swimming pools and describes finding the spontaneous church services of the black Baptist tradition both unnerving and energizing. When local white