Sixty years ago, on Easter Sunday 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a "prayer pilgrimage" in Montgomery, Alabama. The pilgrimage was in protest of the death sentence handed to a young man, Jeremiah Reeves, who was executed in Alabama's electric chair. The Atlantic has Dr. King's comments on "A Question of the Dignity of Man," originally titled "Statement Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage Protesting the Electrocution of Jeremiah Reeves." You can read Dr. King's complete comments at The Atlantic.
