Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. As the outspoken leader of the movement, King was a public enemy of white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan began spreading propaganda as character assassination, during which time some of the themes made its way into William Branham's sermons.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. As the outspoken leader of the movement, King was a public enemy of white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan began spreading propaganda as character assassination, during which time some of the themes made its way into William Branham's sermons.
As the campaign was launched against Martin Luther King, Jr., William Branham began making statements that closely aligned with their campaign. Branham made his position against desegregation known, and rebuked King for his fight to desegregate public schools. According to Branham, African Americans already had schools, and should remain content in their current state of oppression.
God is a segregationalist. I am too. Any Christian's a segregation. God segregates His people from all the rest of them. They're... They've always been a segregation. He chose a nation. He chooses a people. He is a segregationalist. He made all nations. But still, a real genuine Christian has to be a segregationalist. Separating himself from the things of the world and everything, and come into one purpose, Jesus Christ. But they holler that. I've tried to tell them, "That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background." I think Martin Luther King's going to lead his people to a biggest slaughter, and massacre, that they've ever been into. And they... You see, that ain't going to pull the world together. That ain't going to save us. We give them integration. Now it's worse than it ever was. See, that isn't the... that isn't the question. There's only one thing that can: that is God. And they certainly don't want It.
Branham, William. 1964, Dec 27. Who Do You Say This Is
"The white woman," raised up and said, "I don't want my children schooled by a white woman," said, "because they…she won't pay the—the interest, take interest in my children like a colored woman was in my own race." Said, "There, look at our schools. They got swimming pools. They got better schools and everything. Why do we want to go to their schools?" That's right. 22 I believe God is a God of—of, well, I'd say He is a God of variety. He makes big mountains and little mountains. He makes deserts. He makes forests. He makes white man, black man, red man. We should never cross that up. It becomes a hybrid. And anything hybrid cannot re-breed itself. You are ruining the race of people. There is some things about a colored man that a white man don't even possess them traits. A white man is always stewing and worrying; a colored man is satisfied in the state he is in, so they don't need those things.
Branham, William. 1963, June 28. O Lord, Just Once More