Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity collection, 1959-1970.
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Morris, John Burnett, 1930-
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Executive Director for the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity; a co-editor, financial underwriter, promoter, and distributor of South Carolinians Speak, a collection of essays by respected civic leaders and active church people whom Rev. Morris recruited to write essays about desegregation and race relations. Rev. John B. Morris was born in Brunswick, Ga.; in 1951, he graduated from Columbia University; from 1951 to 1954, he attended the Virginia Theological...
Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity.
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The Society, known as ESCRU, was organized in 1959. Its purpose as stated in 1969 was to work for the total eradication of racism in the Church, the nation and the world so that true reconciliation and unity, which are the outgrowth of equality and justice, may be realized in human life. Based in Atlanta, there were local chapters throughout the United States. Membership included Episcopal clergy and lay people. Annual conferences were held. As events and situations necessitated, protests, demon...
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia –d. April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to M...
Episcopal Church
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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...
