Syd, my husband, wrote this: At the height of the civil rights - TopicsExpress

Syd, my husband, wrote this: At the height of the civil rights movement 50 years ago, 1963, several momentous civil-rights related events happened in Mississippi. The most salient event probably was the assassination of Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary of the NAACP, in his driveway in Jackson. Among the year’s lesser civil rights events was the signing and publication, by 28 white Methodist ministers in Mississippi, of a resolution that among other things affirmed the equality of all races under God, supported Mississippi’s soon-to-be-integrated public schools, and opposed spending state monies on a proposed network of private, whites-only schools. My father, James S. Conner, was one of those 28 ministers. (If you want to read the resolution, click here.) Because my father signed the resolution, someone telephoned and said he was going to dynamite our house that night, so my family spent the night with some church members who had moved to Brandon from Massachusetts. The house was never bombed, but my father’s career in the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church suffered, because a lot of congregations didn’t want one of “the 28” as their pastor—and the Conference’s bishop and superintendents weren’t offering much support. Before long, 20 of the 28 had left Mississippi for friendlier locales, but my father stayed here because God had called him to minister in Mississippi and never told him it would be easy. Fast forward 50 years: This Sunday, the Mississippi Conference will for the first time officially acknowledge the resolution as a good thing. And it will honor the 28 signers by bestowing on them (posthumously for many of them, including my father) the Conference’s Emma Elzy Award for “outstanding achievement in race relations in the state of Mississippi.” Ten members of my family (counting spouses) will be there (in Jackson) for the ceremony. Adding to the significance of the occasion, and the memory of 1963, the award will be presented by Myrlie Evers, Medgar Evers’s widow.

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