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Return to the South ON A cool Saturday afternoon in January 1954 I set out to drive from Atlanta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama. It was a clear wintry day. The Metropolitan Opera was on tho radio with a performance of one of my favorite operas----Doni- zetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. So with the beauty of the country- aide, the inspiration of Donizetti's inimitable music, and the splendor of the skies, the usual monotony that accompanies a relatively long drivc---especially when one is alonc----was dis- pelled in pleasant diversions. After a few hours I drove through rich and fertile farmlands to the sharp bend in the Alabama River on whose shores Mont- gomery stands. Although I had passed through the city before, I had never been there on a real visit. Now I would have the opportunity to spend a few days in this beautiful little city, one of the oldest in the United States. Not long after I arrived a friend took me to see the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where I was to preach the follo . . .
