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Birmingham Jail Letter from BIRMINGHAM JAIL THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ANNUAL SERVICE OF TRIBUTE sunday, january 19, 2020 • 4 pm washington national cathedral INTRODUCTION In 1963, white clergy in Birmingham, Ala., weren’t generations to solve, we have included the voices happy with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His of our youth. The Cathedral is focused on this issue civil rights work was too edgy, too disruptive. When because, quite simply, we are called to account, by he landed in jail, many in the church thought he got King and by our neighbors, to lead the way. exactly what he deserved. Mass incarceration diminishes and demeans every King responded with his famous “Letter From life it touches. That’s not only our brothers and sisters Birmingham Jail” with a direct challenge to the church. behind bars, but also our communities that have been How long should oppressed minorities wait to be ravaged by entire lost generations of parents and free, he asked. Why wasn’t the church joining him? leaders. Systemic incarceration also impacts those “Injustice anywhere,” he thundered from his jail cell, who hold the keys to freedom, when those whose “is a threat to justice everywhere.” destiny we control become a mere commodity to be warehoused and forgotten. His letter remains especially poignant today as America confronts a frustrating lack of progress As our Jewish brothers and sisters remind us, it is on behalf of our black and brown members and not our duty to finish the work of repairing the world, neighbors who are incarcerated. Unfortunately, the but neither are we free to neglect it. Today you’ll response to the victims of mass incarceration is much have a chance to side with Dr. King’s vision of justice the same as it was to Dr. King: It’s your fault. You got and liberation. Your donation will go directly to three yourself into this trouble. This is not our problem. organizations that are working to transform our broken criminal justice system. Our prayer today is that Dr. King’s letter will challenge each of us to consider – and confront – the injustices Today, we take up Dr. King’s challenge. Rather than that remain. Some of our readers today have been follow out of comfort or convenience, we will lead out touched by the scourge of mass incarceration either of conviction and conscience. Together, starting here, through imprisonment or personal connection. we can be the change. Because we know this is a problem that will take HONORARY HOST COMMITTEE Muriel Bowser, Mayor, Washington D.C. Aisha Braveboy, state’s attorney, PrinCe george’s County Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, CoMMonWealth’s attorney for arlington County anD the City of falls ChurCh Judith Browne Dianis, exeCutive DireCtor, aDvanCeMent ProjeCt Marc M. Howard, founDer, Prisons anD justiCe initiative Cathy Hughes, founDer anD ChairWoMan, urban one Colby King, ColuMnist, the Washington Post Gwen King, MeMber, CatheDral ChaPter Karl A. Racine, attorney general, Washington D.C. Wayne and Catherine Reynolds, the Catherine b. reynolDs founDation Paul Smith, Minister, sCholar anD Civil rights aCtivist Andrew Young, forMer u.s. aMbassaDor to the uniteD nations special thanks to the catherine B. reynolds Foundation Letter from Birmingham Jail the rev. dr. Martin luther king, Jr. annual service oF triBute sunday, January 19, 2020 • 4 pM washington national cathedral The people’s responses are in bold. PRELUDE Spread Love Roderick Giles (b. 1982) Roderick Giles & Grace; Cathedral Band There Is a Balm in Gilead Negro spiritual Michele Fowlin, soprano; Marshall Keys, saxophone; Cathedral Band Can’t Give Up Now Curtis Burrell (b. 1945) Washington Performing Arts/Children of the Gospel Choir as sung by Mary Mary Precious Lord, Take My Hand Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993) Roderick Giles & Grace; Cathedral Band OPENING SONG Lead Me, Guide Me Doris Akers (1923–1995) Cathedral Band I am weak, and I need Thy strength and power Help me tread in the paths of righteousness, To help me over my weakest hour. Be my aid when Satan and sin oppress. Help me through the darkness Thy face to see. I am putting all my trust in Thee. Lead me, oh Lord, lead me. Lead me, oh Lord, lead me. Refrain Refrain Lead me, guide me, along the way, I am lost if you take your hand from me, For if you lead me, I cannot stray. I am blind without thy light to see, Lord, let me walk each day with Thee. Lord, just always let me thy servant be, Lead me, oh Lord, lead me. Lead me, oh Lord, lead me. Refrain WELCOME The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean, Washington National Cathedral INTRODUCTION AND PRAYER FOR DR. KING The Rev. Canon Leonard L. Hamlin, Sr., Canon Missioner, Washington National Cathedral CALL TO PRAYER Cantor Susan Bortnick, Washington Hebrew Congregation Rayyan Syed, ADAMS BEAT Choir (All Dulles Area Muslim Society) Jason Widney, Cathedral Choir EXCERPT FROM STIRRING THE WATERS ACROSS AMERICA Stirring the Waters Nolan Williams, Jr. (b. 1969) Cast of “Stirring the Waters Across America” adapted from the Negro spiritual Wade in the Water LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL BY THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. INTRODUCTION TO “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL” Recording of Dr. King reading his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” This and all following excerpts offered by today’s readers are from “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” CHORAL RESPONSE Ain’t Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around Negro spiritual, arr. R. Giles Roderick Giles & Grace; Cathedral Band PART 1: OUR LEGITIMATE AND UNAVOIDABLE IMPATIENCE …My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your single gain in civil rights without determined legal and tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek nonviolent pressure. History is the long and tragic story to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their to the public amusement park that has just been advertised privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form individuals. in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness We know through painful experience that freedom is never toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, “Daddy, by the oppressed. … For years now I have heard the why do white people treat colored people so mean?”; when word “wait.” It rings in the ear of every Negro with a you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to piercing familiarity. This “wait” has almost always meant sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your “never.” It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving automobile because no motel will accept you; when you the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading an ill-formed infant of frustration. We must come to see “white” and “colored”; when your first name becomes with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that “justice too “nigger” and your middle name becomes “boy” (however long delayed is justice denied.” We have waited for more old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and when than three hundred and forty years for our God-given your wife and mother are never given the respected title and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodyness” darts of segregation to say “wait.” But when you have seen — then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro legitimate and unavoidable impatience. brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the CHORAL RESPONSE Mind Stayed on Freedom Negro spiritual and Freedom Song Cast of “Stirring the Waters Across America” arr. N. Williams, Jr. PART 2: THERE IS A MORE EXCELLENT WAY You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public the personality.
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