Nearly six decades ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached from the pulpit of Salem Baptist Church, which was at the time located in Jenkintown.
Six decades ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preached from the pulpit of Salem Baptist Church, which was at the time located in Jenkintown, at the invitation of his former classmate and Salem’s foundational pastor, the late Rev. Dr. Robert Johnson Smith Sr.. Don Scott reported the appearance in The Ambler Gazette.
During his October 27, 1963, visit, King bellowed three timeless words, lifting the spirits of people within the black church’s historic sanctuary and those beyond its walls…