\u201cBen, make sure you play \u2018Precious Lord, Take My Hand\u2019 in the meeting tonight, play it real pretty.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
These were the last words uttered by Martin Luther King on 4th April 1968 to the musician Ben Branch.\u00a0 Today, Journey to Justice launches its first project examining the creativity of and links between the American civil rights movement and social protest in Britain. King\u2019s words hint at the inextricable link between struggle and song. Many have been inspired by the principles and passion that were invoked and the manner and methods used in the struggle for human dignity and justice. And for some, all of this was captured in the clarion call of one man, Martin Luther King. But the civil rights movement was about more than one person. Why did so many get involved? How and why did individuals come together and persist in the face of inhumane treatment, hostility and sometimes just plain indifference. Was it courage? conviction? personal circumstance?<\/p>\n
Journey to Justice would like to thank everyone who helped make this evening possible: performers, our compere, those who ran the publicity, organisation, made food, gave the drinks,\u00a0managed the sound, the tickets, filming and photography, designed\u00a0programmes or prepared the venue. And of course we thank you, our\u00a0audience. Thanks to everyone who has given either financially or by\u00a0offering special rewards for our crowdfunding campaign. Your\u00a0support means everything. It\u2019s not too late to make a donation if you so wish. The campaign ends on July 30th. Please visit\u00a0www.buzzbnk.org\/journeytojustice<\/a>\u00a0if you haven\u2019t yet. We need your help to take us to the next phase of our work – the establishment of a travelling exhibition. For now though, sit back, relax and enjoy some sweet soulful performances\u2026<\/p>\n Mark Hutchinson, Chair, Journey to Justice<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBen, make sure you play \u2018Precious Lord, Take My Hand\u2019 in the meeting tonight, play it real pretty.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n These were the last words uttered by Martin Luther King on 4th April 1968 to the musician Ben Branch.\u00a0 Today, Journey to Justice launches its first project examining the creativity of and links between the American civil rights movement and social protest in Britain. King\u2019s words hint at the inextricable link between struggle and song. Many have been inspired by the principles and passion that were invoked and the manner and methods used in the struggle for human dignity and justice. And for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeytojustice.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}