GLENDORA,
California—"The whole church must be united," said Curtis May, director of
the Office of Reconciliation Ministries, at a church service organized by the Glendora
church Feb. 2 to help initiate Black History Month in the city.WCG helps initiate
Black History Month
in Glendora
GLENDORA,
California—"The whole church must be united," said Curtis May, director of
the Office of Reconciliation Ministries, at a church service organized by the Glendora
church Feb. 2 to help initiate Black History Month in the city.
The meeting was introduced by Pastor Bruce Butler of the Glendora Friends Church, who also serves as president of the Glendora Ministerial Association.
The WCG church choir gave a presentation titled "An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America" narrated by Arthur Villanova. Durell Brown recited portions of Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, and Walton Brown related his experiences as part of the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that helped ignite the protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
Afterward, more than 110 people enjoyed a sampling of soul food prepared by Joe Wright and Bessie Adams. Neil Earle.
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