LIVING HISTORY MAKERS TOLD HOW THE PAST INFORMS OUR FUTURE DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION AT HYDE PARK CHURCH
Pictured L to R: Catherine Healy, Rector, SPR, Jo Ann Roberts, PhD., SPR BHM Chair, Alderman Lamont Robinson, 4th Ward, Congressman Bobby L Rush (ret.), Michelle Duster, Public Historian, Sara Bigger, SPR Anti-racism Working Group. Photo credit: Devorah Crable
about the life, times and uncompromising drive of her great-grandmother the revered civil rights activist and antilynching crusader Ida B. Wells during the Black History Month celebration at St. Paul & the Redeemer in Hyde Park.
and. how she defied authority to move from the back of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage March to the front and was the only Black woman in the Illinois delegation.
information, education and inspiration for all to be a ‘light for justice’.
Plummer, Canon for Networking at the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and Bill Trusdale, consultant with the Illinois State board of Education.
Following the George Floyd police murder and subsequent Black Lives Matter movement, Bishop Michael Curry, the first Black U.S. presiding bishop, formed a working group to expand the church’s ongoing anti-racism and reconciliation
efforts.
United States. SPR’s civil rights engagement goes back to the 60’s when it’s, then, rector led the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity.
SPR BHM Co-chair said “The call to action is for each of us to use our gifts and talents to combat injustice in all forms as ordinary people and citizens.”
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