Faith Curricula Library: Tapestry of Faith: Faith Like a River: A Program on Unitarian Universalist History for Adults

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See Victoria Safford’s complete essay, “Living in Exile,” in the online archives of UU World (March/April 2004).

Servetus and Capek Biographies

Read biographies of Michael Servetus and Norbert Capek online in the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society’s Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. See the articles “Michael Servetus” and “Norbert Capek” in Mark Harris, Historical Dictionary of Unitarian Universalism (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2004).

More about Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb

Home of the Brave” a documentary film about Liuzzo

Howlett, Duncan. No Greater Love: The James Reeb Story (Boston: Skinner House, 1993)

Leonard, Richard D. Call to Selma: Eighteen Days of Witness (Skinner House Books, 2002)

Mendelsohn, Jack. The Martyrs: 16 Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice (Harper and Row, 1966)

Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo (University of Georgia Press, 1998)

Servetus and the British Martyrs

Levy, Leonard Williams. Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

Reynolds, Matthew. Godly Reformers and Their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich c. 1560-1643 (Boydell Press, 2005)

Schulman, Frank, This Day in Unitarian Universalist History (Skinner House Books, 2004)

Call to SelmaEighteen Days of Witness

By Richard D. Leonard

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Leonard’s journal presents Selma as a pivotal point in the advancement of civil rights.

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