226 Notes to Pages 175–183 53. King, “Address at the Fourth Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change,” December 3, 1959, ibid., 5: 333–43. 54. Gray, Leventhal, Sikora, and Thornton, The Children Coming On, 131. 55. Underwood, interview by Lumpkin; Vaughn and Wills, eds., Reflec- tions on Our Pastor, 12, 51. Richard Lischer believes a large part of the reason for King’s departure was the difficulty sustaining growth at the church, given King’s frequent absences: “Despite the fame of its pastor, the church was not thriving. In response to King’s absenteeism and his delegation of his duties to others, the power of the deacons reasserted itself, and the pastor found himself ‘under fire.’ King was encouraged either to cut back on his outside commitments or to leave Dexter. When his responsibilities in the Movement led him back to Atlanta and his father’s church, he left a congregation both saddened and relieved by his departure” (Lischer, The Preacher King, 79). 56. Vaughn and Wills, eds., Reflections on Our Pastor, 62, 80–81, 100. 57. “Dexter Honors Dr. & Mrs. King!!” Dexter Echo, February 3, 1960, MS 22 #722, Coretta Scott King Collection. 58. King, “Address Delivered during ‘A Salute to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King’ at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church,” January 31, 1960, ET-56, Martin Luther King Estate Collection. 59. King, “Address Delivered at the Montgomery Improvement Associa- tion’s ‘Testimonial of Love and Loyalty,’” February 1, 1960, ET-53, ET-54, Martin Luther King Estate Collection. 60. SCLC press release, “Dr King Leaves Montgomery for Atlanta,” De- cember 1, 1959, Folder 40, Box 35, King Papers, Boston University. 61. Lewis and Ligon, interview by Lumpkin. Epilogue 1. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, “The Montgomery Situation,” April 1960, Folder 5, Box 2, Reddick Papers; H. Councill Trenholm to James McFadden, March 4, 1960, Folder 15, Box 2, ibid. 2. Virginia Durr to Clark Foreman, March 1960, in Sullivan, ed., Free- dom Writer, 198–99. 3. Garrow, ed., The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, 168; Mary Fair Burks to King, March 31, 1960, Box 20, King Papers, Boston University; King to Mary Fair Burks, April 5, 1960, in Papers of Mar- tin Luther King, Jr., 5: 406–8; Mary Fair Burks, “Trailblazers: Women in the Montgomery Bus Boycott,” in Crawford, Rouse, and Woods, eds., Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 76.