From Maryland-Waymon Wright broke down Sunday morning as he spoke before the congregation at All Saints' Episcopal Church about his own struggles during the Civil Rights movement and his relationship with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“You start thinking back on different images and different situations you've been through,” he said.
Wright grew up in South Carolina and attended college at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he met King.
“This celebration of a saint in our church is significantly different than the celebration of any of our other saints, because I lived during his time,” said Wright, a layperson, during the special Sunday sermon. “I was very close to this one, knew him, worked with him, admired him, loved him, was his fraternity brother, as well as his Christian brother.”
Wright recalled King as a man who had suffered through the struggles of being black in America at the time and as an outstanding preacher and orator.
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