Join us Fri., April 26 for “Faith and Racism: A Living History” with the Rev. James Foster Reese ’49.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
11:30 a.m. – Worship, with the Rev. James Foster Reese ’49 preaching
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
12:45 p.m. – The Rev. Reese will share his personal story as a pioneer in the racial justice movement.
The Rev. James Reese ’49 has been a student, practitioner, and advocate of racial-ethnic diversity since he began ministry more than 70 years ago. A pastor of three congregations in southern Alabama in the 1950s, he was in Washington, D.C., when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Reese says, “I have sat at dozens of tables of decision making, and things didn’t always go as I wished. I felt marginalized, separated, ignored. But one thing I have never done: I have never left the table.” During this event, Reese will share memories of the momentous times that changed our church, our country, and our world forever.