Dexter Avenue Organist Hired By Martin Luther King Jr. Still Playing Strong

Alabama News Center | June 12, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Keisa Sharpe

Mrs. Althea Thomas is certainly small in stature.

She enters Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church quietly and unassumingly, not causing any attention to flow in her direction. She heads straightaway to her bench, perched in the choir stand, and artfully arranges her belongings she has brought inside the church.

Then, she turns to her prized instrument, gently lifts its cover and begins striking a few chords. Her comfort and poise are evident on this organ bench, in the choir stand, at this moment at Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church.Members of the choir take their places and await their cue from her just minutes before the 10 a.m. services begin.

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