Some 40 years after his death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is being honored through powerful words in a special book from Dalmatian Press and The Choral Arts Society of Washington. Voices: Reflections on an American Icon in Words and Song comprises 96 pages of remembrances as well as music inspired by the American movement for Civil Rights.
The book offers reflections from foot soldiers who marched alongside Dr. King, contemporary observers, and distinguished witnesses to history, such as Julian Bond, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, and Harris Wofford, assistant to President John F. Kennedy. Also included are writers, like the spirited poet Nikki Giovanni, Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Patterson, and journalist John Seigenthaler, an assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Nobel Peace Prize-winners Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have also added their thoughts on King, whose passion was to bring all people together in a symphony of love, said Noel Leo Erskine, an associate professor of ethics and theology at Emory University.
