Reverend A. P. Jackson was the pastor of the Liberty Baptist Church at the time of the Chicago Freedom Movement. He was one of the few black ministers who headed a large church to support Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work in Chicago.

“[Mayor Daley] had a large number of ministers at City Hall eating from the king’s table. You don’t talk against the king when you are eating at his table.
“And quite naturally, when Dr. King came to Chicago these ministers were afraid of inviting Dr. King to their churches because they were afraid they would alienate the feelings of Mayor Daley . . . “
“We were free of eating at the mayor’s table. We had no fear of any reprisal coming from Mayor Daley because our church was independent. The membership of Liberty made sure that I was independent of any politicians, so we never accepted money from any politicians or anyone else. . . . So I could afford to have [Dr. King] come to Liberty because we were not afraid of any reprisal from Mayor Daley.”
“Chicago was a suburb of Mississippi. We didn’t know we were not free until Dr. King woke us up. We were sleeping . . . .”

Reverend A. P. Jackson interview with Jim Ralph, January 3, 1992.