Cathedral Oral Histories , Week Two

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Oral Histories: Telling Our Stories

We can only work for a better future if we truly understand our past. The Cathedral’s Racial Justice Task Force has been collecting a series of first-person oral histories from African American members of the Cathedral community to help us all learn, reflect and walk forward together.

Week 2: The Rev. Vincent Harris

The Rev. Vincent Harris was the only African American graduate of his seminary class, and was warned by other white clergy not to be a “militant radical” on racial inequities in the church. Needless to say, that didn’t stop him.