Since Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was commemorated this year on Stafford's birthday, January 17, I posted on Twitter a link to a poem about segregation entitled "Serving with Gideon" (read the poem here). The connection between King and Stafford go deeper than one day of remembrance, so I'd like to provide some more context for the poem and its relation to the work that Stafford did on behalf of peace and justice.