Today, a new generation of Black pastors are answering a call similar to that followed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers in the 1960s.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black faith leaders in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 in a push for voting rights that had been largely galvanized by the Black church.
Jackson was still a seminarian at the time, but said he understood that religious leaders had a"moral obligation" to fight for justice."Preachers stand up, people listen to them, they hear them and they respond," Jackson said. Today, Jackson is still marching and rallying for voting rights, but with a new generation of Black pastors answering to a call similar to that followed by King and other ministers in the 1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., right, and his aide, Rev.
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