In case you missed it, the United Church of Christ and the Wilmington Ten were mentioned on the Melissa Harris-Perry show yesterday in a segment entitled, "Faith-based Action Oriented Toward Justice." In this segment Harris-Perry cites some of the social justice causes the United Church of Christ has championed over the years, including the Wilmington Ten. My memoir,Triumphant Warrior, details the support given by the UCC at the national and local level.
In the 1970's the United Church of Christ spent close to $1,000,000 defending the Wilmington Ten. After posting close to $500,000.00 bond for our release, they provided scholarship money for four of us to go to college. Through one of their many ministries, the Commission for Racial Justice, they paid our legal fees throughout a long and expensive appeal process. It was one of it's member churches, Gregory Congregational, from which we launched our boycott. It is only appropriate that I launch the story surrounding that boycott from a UCC affiliated church:The Church of the Good Shepherd in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In the 1970's the United Church of Christ spent close to $1,000,000 defending the Wilmington Ten. After posting close to $500,000.00 bond for our release, they provided scholarship money for four of us to go to college. Through one of their many ministries, the Commission for Racial Justice, they paid our legal fees throughout a long and expensive appeal process. It was one of it's member churches, Gregory Congregational, from which we launched our boycott. It is only appropriate that I launch the story surrounding that boycott from a UCC affiliated church:The Church of the Good Shepherd in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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