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Dec 30, 2019 · Reparations and Religion: 50 years after ‘Black Manifesto’. (RNS) — On a Sunday morning in May of 1969, as clergy processed into the sanctuary of New York’s august Riverside Church, civil rights activist James Forman vaulted into the pulpit to demand $500 million in reparations for the mistreatment of African Americans from white ...
Apr 30, 2019 · James Forman was a strong presence in those days, but also a team player. So I was taken by surprise when, following the creation in late April 1969 of the Black Manifesto by the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC), he entered both The Episcopal Church’s national headquarters in New York City as well as The Riverside Church in uptown Manhattan to forcibly present its demands.
James Forman died January 10, 2005 in Washington, DC. In Forman’s obituary, The New York Times called him “a civil rights pioneer who brought a fiercely revolutionary vision and masterly organizational skills to virtually every major civil rights battleground in the 1960s.”. James Forman 1928-2005 Born In Chicago in 1928 but raised by his ...
Mar 13, 2020 · LOUISVILLE — When African American activist James Forman presented The Black Manifesto in 1969, calling for $500 million in reparations for injustices against black people, he made it clear that he thought Christian churches were partly to blame for the oppression of his people. “We know that the churches and synagogues have a tremendous ...
Transcript of the Black Manifesto delivered by James Forman at the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit, Michigan on April 26, 1969, and responses to it made by religious leaders, including Gayraud Wilmore and the National Committee of Black Churchman. Creator. Forman, James, 1928-2005. (author)
James Forman, Introduction to “The Black Manifesto,” 26 April 19691 We are mindful that the program proposed has troubled the waters of Siloam, yet we know that however much the churches may shake to the vibrations of [their] own cleansing, the healing of Christ is working upon them. National Committee of Black Churchmen, 7 May 19692
