Frazier, John

John Frazier (born 1941), an African American Unitarian Universalist minister, was born in Mississippi. During the early 1960s, he was active in the civil rights movement and served as assistant to the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Field Directors, Medger and Charles Evers. Frazier left Mississippi to attend the seminary at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Manchester College in Oxford, England. He was ordained in July 1969. His ordination coincided with the founding of the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation by dissident members of the First Unitarian Society in Cleveland, Ohio, and Frazier came to Cleveland to serve as minister of the newly formed congregation.