Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Sticky notes in three different colors, 3x3 or larger, several of each color per participant Writing implements Preparation for Activity Title three sheets of newsprint Congregation, Association, and Society. On each...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Story, "The Black Humanist Fellowship" Timepiece (minutes) Preparation for Activity Read the story "The Black Humanist Fellowship." Copy for all participants....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, The Empowerment Controversy Handout 2, Time Line of the Empowerment Controversy Story, "The Black Humanist Fellowship" Preparation for Activity Become familiar with the contents of Handout 1, The Empowerment Controversy and Handout 2, Ti...

https://books.google.com/books/about/Long_Challenge_The_Empowerment_Con… Long Challenge: The Empowerment Controversy (1967-1977) by Victor Carpenter (Chicago: Meadville Lombard Press, 2004) http://www.uuabookstore.org/The-Arc-of-the-Universe-Is-Long-P17039.aspx… Arc of the Universe Is Long:...

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What did not? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Review the next workshop. Are there any questions to research or logistics to arrange between workshops? Make a...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table and chalice Participant journals Writing materials, including paper, pens, pencils, color pencils, and markers Taking It Home handout Preparation for Activity Customize the Taking It Home section of this workshop and copy...

Materials for Activity Materials from your congregation’s archives Notebooks and writing materials Optional: Audio or video recording equipment Preparation for Activity Examine your congregation's archived documents and materials from the Civil Rights era, focusing on involvement with and...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship or centering table Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Timepiece (minutes) Chime or bell Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, the UUA hymnbook, for all participants Optional: Cloth for worship/centering table...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use), and bold markers Copies of Workshop 1, Handout 1, Schedule Optional: Refreshments Preparation for Activity Have copies of Workshop 1, Handout 1, Schedule on hand for those who need one....

Read the workshop, and then investigate whether your congregation has had a significant conflict. When did the conflict take place? Does it continue to affect congregational life? What issues were at stake? Was the conflict an internal matter, or did it involve outside forces? Was it successfully...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: The Empowerment Controversy 20 Activity 2: The Black Humanist Fellowship 30 Activity 3: The Long Journey 20 Faith in Action: Your Congregation's History in Working for Racial Justice Closing 10 Alternate Activity 1: The Charge of th...

"Black Empowerment," "walkout," "racist"...the words we use, the language we have to describe the period of the late 1960s and early 1970s are loaded. Why, for example, do we use the term "Black Empowerment Controversy"?...

Excerpted and edited from a presentation by the Rev. Gordon D. Gibson under auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society at the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, June 23, 2000, Nashville, Tennessee. Used with permission. What was it like to be a Unitarian...

From the minutes of an annual meeting of The First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans, date unknown (sometime after 1966). This financial information was provided to the congregation at an annual meeting, in order to explain the need to refinance the mortgage on the building....

Excerpts from "Albert D'Orlando: A Resume," "The New Orleans Story," and "The First Unitarian Church of New Orleans" by Rev. Albert D'Orlando. These documents are located in the "Albert D'Orlando" file at the Andover Harvard Library. ......

Excerpted from a March 3, 1998 New Orleans Times-Picayune article by Mark Schliefstein as reprinted on the website of the annual D'Orlando Lecture on Social Justice.... The Rev. (Albert) D'Orlando fought racism and segregation for many years and later opposed the Vietnam War. His house and church...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 3, Southern Unitarian Universalists in the Civil Rights Era - Small Acts of Great Courage Preparation for Activity Read Handout 3 and copy it for all participants. Optional: If possible, distribute Handout 3 in advance of the workshop.

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, The Cost Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Read Handout 2 and copy for all participants. Post blank newsprint....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "The Reverend Albert D'Orlando Fought Racism in New Orleans" Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Read the story. Decide with your co-facilitator which of you will present it. Post blank newsprint....

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, The New Orleans Story Preparation for Activity Read Handout 1 and copy it for all participants....