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Gordon Gibson has a light hand, and lets history speak to us in this rich and necessary resource. Although he clearly spent more than a decade clambering through old boxes and abandoned files, his work reads like a series of conversations with old friends. He has given us primary resources the oral histories of many Unitarian Universalists in the south of the 1950s and 60s but he has also created an impeccably researched history of every congregation involved in the struggle for civil rights. It is compellingly readable, and will certainly be the go-to resource for future work. His introductory and concluding chapters are interpretive, and Gibson's clear moral and humane center shines through. He is sensitive to context and awake to the contributions of all. --Rev. Andrea GreenwoodIn the 1950s and 1960s, no part of the country challenged liberal religious values more than the South. Gordon Gibson gives remarkable examples of conflict and courage as religious liberals confronted race hatred in their own communities. This is a landmark study of Unitarian Universalism all over the South, as each city evokes diverse stories of practical applications of a lived faith, sometimes fearless and sometimes fearful. --Rev. Mark HarrisGibson asserts that while one can write the history of the civil rights movement without mentioning Unitarian Universalism one cannot exclude the individuals who were Unitarian Universalists and give a full account. During that era it took courage to be a UU in the South. This book captures the heroism, trepidation, and wavering of congregations and people committed to live out liberal religious values in a ferociously inhospitable climate. --Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed

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During his more than forty years in Unitarian Universalist ministry, Gordon D. Gibson has taken part in voting rights demonstrations in Selma, served as the only Unitarian Universalist minister in Mississippi 1969-1984, and co-founded the Living Legacy Project, which leads pilgrimages to civil rights sites in the South. He is a past president of the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society.

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Paperback: 264 pages

Publisher: Skinner House Books; First edition (February 25, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1558967508

ISBN-13: 978-1558967502

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8.4 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches

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Gordon Gibson has shared the untold stories of people of courage who lived their faith during some of this nation's most challenging years. Thank you for your research, the stories and your observations.

It is scary seeing how history may be repeating itself.

Southern Witness: Unitarians and Universalists in the Civil Rights Era, (UUA Boston, 2015) by Gordon Gibson is my nominee for the most important religious book published this year, the 50th Anniversary of the Selma March, and the Voting Rights Act, and the death of the Rev. Jim Reeb, a Unitarian, Universalist minister, and one of the martyrs of “the movement,” and of the battle of Selma.t is my choice as the UU churches were a key outgrowth of the early 19th Century reformers, like Emerson, and other advocates of the ending of slavery; this denomination, in Gibson’s thorough research, connected to the Martin Luther King movement of non-violent resistance to segregated tyranny, which was the most important theological movement of the last century – the interconnection of the Unitarian-Universalist movement, and the King movement, at key points, is the focus and great strength of this short book, a scholarly and timely achievement. I turned first to the chapter on Jackson, Mississippi, as there was the first Unitarian I had ever known, Don Thompson, who was shot in August of 1965 in the parking lot to his apartment, after dropping off a young black man, Johnny Frazier, an active member of the small UU Congregation there, seeking to become a Unitarian pastor. The book is written by this congregation’s second minister, Gibson, “called in August, 1969,” to the Jackson Church after Thompson, who lived, stayed after the shooting, but ultimately left to be replaced by Gibson. During his pastoral work in Mississippi, and the region, Gibson began collecting stories and material of other Unitarians iand their connections with civil rights, and completed the book on a sabbatical after his retirement.The four cities of Alabama, Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Mobil, were next in my survey, as I was interested to learn that a black Dentist, John Cashin of Huntsville, had Unitarian beliefs and connections, acknowledging as he ran for Governor against George Wallace in 1970, “”Intellectually I am a Unitarian, but politically I’m a Baptist.”The profile of the Rev. Charles Blackburn’s pastorate includes theologically interesting details of Unitarian and other denominations’ participation in the Selma march, beatings, and so on. Birmingham’s 13 pages includes the history of the denomination’s start there after World War II, a regionwide pattern which follows that which Gibson lays out in the first part of the book, as small Fellowships in the Post WWII period grew to churches. The Birmingham church and its interconnection with the the Birmingham Movement, is worth the price of the book. It includes discussion of the long role of the Rev. Jack Zylman, who worked in many capacities in his home town, including as an aide to the first black Congressman from Birmingham, and who worked with me in the late sixties,in the Southern Student Human Relations Project, as he returned to his home state.Montgomery is of great interest for the brief intellectual life story of Morris Dees, co-founder with Julian Bond and others of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who “was a strong motivating force in getting the 1966 iteration of the Montgomery Fellowship organized and funded…serving as congregational president by May 1967.”Quoting Unitarian pastor Homer Jack, (in an innovative use of short quotes of key individuals, set off in the book) on a visit to Tuscaloosa in the 50’s comparing his experience “in South Africa three years ago,” to Alabama, he says in a sermon preached in a Unitarian church in Evanston, Illinois, “I found whites there (in S. Africa) freer to speak out against apartheid than I found whites in Alabama last week free to speak out against segregation.”Five cities in Tennessee, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis are covered in 40 pages, with endnotes, while Norfolk and Lynchburg, Virginia, Charlotte and Monroe North Carolina, Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, along with Atlanta, Georgia, and Savannah, Augusta, and Athens, also with short endnotes comprise the first half of the book. Again, my personal connection to the Atlanta Congregation, a key one during this period, came through Bernice Johnson Reagon, who was a member when Anne Romaine and I moved to Atlanta in 1967, while now State Senator Nan Orrock has been a member up to date in 2015.New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, dominantly Roman Catholic states bring up the rear of the book, which concludes with a single chapter on Little Rock, Arkansas, and Summary, “Revelations,” and Index and Acknowledgements. This is an essential book for any serious student of religion in the southern region, as well as an innovative and interesting take for any member of any individual congregation discussed. Thanks be to those who lived and can tell the story. Howard M. Romaine, Memphis, ’63-64, Miss. ’64, Virginia ’65-’67, Georgia, ’67-73.’If there is an omission, surely it is of Thomas Jefferson, whose famous gospel with the miracles omitted, or edited out, is a standard of the usual Unitarian post service book table sale. (witnessed by the writer as recently as Mother’s Day Sunday in Baton Rouge.) It is my recall that members of the Charlottesville Unitarian Church were active in support of the Virginia Student Civil Rights Committee, a joint project of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the Southern Student Organizing Committee, of which I was chair in 1965-66. However, his theological, moral, literary, and political shadow was perhaps so large it would take too much space to describe, in such a book. Many others are being and have been written about this ‘Unitarian’ Founding Father!!

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