TeUg Davidson Audience
fcDr. Adair: Martin L. King Raised
Americans’ Awareness
R Luther King Jr.
Americans'
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bility to the
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d January 20 at a
on College
1 service for King
one of Davidson’s
51 trustees, was Pastor in
Residence at Davidson
January 19-22. She
reminisced in the
memorial service about
her work with King during
the civil rights movement
of the 1960s. She was
elected a trustee of
Davidson in 1963 and has a
long history of involvement
with education in the
Charlotte area.
Adair attended Barber
Scotia College in Concord
and Bennett College in
Greensboro and is
professor emeritus of
education at Queens
College of the University of
the City of New York. She
currently serves as «
consultant to Barber-Scotia
College, as well as
Chairman of Barber
Scotia’s education
department.
Irt her address in Lingle
Chapel, Adair said King
became the voice of the
people and encouraged his
followers to love their
enemies.
“‘The crux of the battle.’
he said to us, 'is if you
begin to hate now, you’re
no better than those who
fight against you. I can be
non-violent because if I
respond with violence, I
create a world of
destruction. I am no better
Davidson College Trnstee Thelma
Davidson Adair talks with stbdeats at
Davidson daring her stay as Pastor in
Residence. From right: Adair,
Sophomore Vincent K. Knight,
Freshman Sonja Ann Miller, AssisUnt
Chaplain Brenda Tapia and Sophomore
Sharon Spong.
than these who perpetrate
the crimes and dastardly
deeds.*" ■
Adair has also worked
with other civil rights
leaders, including the Rev.
Jesse Jackson.. Adair
accompanied Jackson to
Syria in January 1964 to
negotiate the release of
U.S. Navy Pilot Lt. Robert
Goodman. With her late
husband, Adair founded a
church in Harlem in the
1940s which provided
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She was the second woman
to serve as moderator of
the 188th General
Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church.
King was the champion
of peace of all persons.
Adair said, and sought a
"better life for those
oppressed by injustice.
“He was not afraid to die," j
she concluded. “He said so
often to us who faltered, ‘If
there’s nothing in your life
worth dying for, there’s
nothing worth living for.’”
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