“Eleven O’Clock on Sunday Morning Is One of the Most Segregated Hours”

Looking beyond a quick quotation and considering this statement in its context

“It is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies,” Martin Luther King, Jr., pointed out on Meet the Press in 1960, “that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours, in Christian America.”

As with many quotations from famous persons, these lines are frequently cited in iso…