Join us Thursday, May 27 at 7:00 pm in our historic Enoch Pratt Parish Hall for this very special event. Charles Blackburn will offer a DVD presentation of the Unitarian Universalist Civil Rights Heritage Pilgrimage to Alabama and Mississippi in February 2009 with commentary about his Civil Rights activities of 1964-66 in the same locations.
Charles Blackburn was a Unitarian Universalist minister and served churches in CA, AL and NY. He was minister in Huntville, AL during the Selma period, 1964-66. After leaving the UU ministry Charles was an organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union, establishing ACLU affiliates in five southern states and 15 city chapters in five other southern states. For 25 years Charles was a fundraiser for numerous Maryland organizations, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Univ. of MD and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Charles retired in 1995. He and his partner of 32 years, Glen Dehn, were plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit which attempted to obtain equal civil marriage for same-gender partners.
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