Acknowledgements
Thank you to the following people who made the January 2001
gathering possible:
Harold Wilson
Jack Mendelsohn
Yielbonzie Charles Johnson
Cathleen Young
Thomas Smith
Charlie Alday
Art Lavoie
We owe a particular thanks to Darrel Richey, who demonstrated
utmost care and respect for the participants by preparing and serving
meals each day in exceptionally beautiful surroundings, and to Hannah
Wells, who ably and generously assisted.
We thank Julie Kain, who compiled the Timeline with the kind of
attention to detail that is made possible only through genuine
interest and scholarship in relation to one's subject of inquiry.
Julie is a student at Starr King School who plans to enter the parish
ministry.
There are several individuals who were leaders of Black Empowerment
in the Unitarian Universalist Association who have begun a history
project. We have benefited immeasurably from members of this
group in their willingness to have extensive conversations with us.
Thank you to several leaders of Black Empowerment in the UUA who
gave generously of their time in conversations with Alicia Forsey and
others in order to clarify issues, though they could not be present
for the January conference. Special appreciation goes to
Mtangulizi Sanyika (formerly Hayward Henry) for being a guest lecturer
in the UU History class.
We gratefully acknowledge the Fund for Unitarian Universalism for
funding this publication, and finally, the generous donors to Starr
King School for the Ministry.
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O that the President would soon
speak that electric sentence,—inspiration to the
loyal North, doom to the traitorous aristocracy
whose cup of guilt is full. Let him say that
it is a war of mass against class, of America
against feudalism, of the schoolmaster against the
slave-master, of workmen against the barons, of
the ballot-box against the Barracoon. This
is what the struggle means. Proclaim it so,
and what a light breaks through our leaden sky!
The ocean-wave rolls then with the impetus and
weight of an idea.
Thomas Starr King
(awaiting the Emancipation
Proclamation)
Thomas Starr King: Patriot and
Preacher |
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