Sitting at Daddy King's table

Pivotal summer for intern who cooked, shared breakfast with civil rights patriarch

By CHRISTOPHER QUINN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/19/08

In the summer of 1961, Gurdon Brewster ... 24-year-old white seminary student from New York .... arrived for an internship at Ebenezer Baptist Church and ended up living with the elder Kings ...

The reception he got from white Atlantans was a few degrees cooler.

He was surprised to learn he could not treat the Ebenezer youth group he worked with to an icy Coke on a sunny day at Rich's department store lunch counter.

Groups of men threatened Brewster on two occasions, and his own Episcopal brothers gave him the cold shoulder when he tried to organize interracial meetings of African-American and white Sunday school classes ...

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