Not Nameless

Yesterday my wife Rev. Kayle Rice talked at Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse about the "black empowerment controversy" in the Unitarian Universalist Association in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Click here and here for the history of the controversy.

Yesterday's UUCP service was in honor of Martin Luther King Day weekend, and the readings remembered and honored the life and work for social justice of MLK. One of the readings said something about while the name of Dr. King is remembered by many, there were tens of thousands of nameless persons active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

True, and there were many who were and are not nameless, whose names are in history books and memoirs. Unitarian Universalists should know and remember their names and tell their stories to the next generation. For a partial list, click here.