How Martin Luther King Jr. foresaw Mississippi's new Episcopal Black bishop
The Rev. Dorothy Sanders Wells, a native of Mobile, Ala., explains the different sections of the flag of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi in Ridgeland, Miss., July 19, 2024, before she is formally installed Saturday as the first woman and first Black person to hold the post of the Episcopal bishop in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
(RNS) — King contrasted Mississippi’s past with his optimistic vision of the state as an ‘oasis of freedom and justice.’
