 | | The Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell |
"The church, tragically, has been known to compromise its ideals."
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|  | | Angella Current-Felder |
"So many today have no
knowledge of the historic contributions blacks have made to the Methodist Church." [Listen to Audio]
[Read Transcript] | | | |  | | Mai Gray |
"There were things that were not good, but out of it came growth."
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[Read Transcript] |  | | Rhett Jackson |
"I had no idea that racism was so bad in South Carolina. And I was especially surprised that a lot of our clergy, white clergy, had a lot of racism." [Listen to Audio]
[Read Transcript] | | | |  | | Bishop Leontine Kelly |
"Poppa said, 'Well, they left, but we’re staying. And we’re staying to try to just get this church straight because they can’t be the church of Jesus Christ without us.'"
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|  | | The Rev. Joseph Lowery |
"There are some questions that will never be answered, like 'Why did the blacks who remained in the Methodist Church do so?'"
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[Read Transcript] | | | |  | | June Pembroke |
"They probably
thought that we were being short-changed,
but we weren’t at all because we developed friendships from people all over the United States."
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[Read Transcript] |  | | Bishop Forrest Stith |
"The celebration and the fellowship were something
unique and unlike anything I had ever experienced."
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[Read Transcript] | | | |  | | Bishop Woodie White |
"We were dealing with people who had never literally sat down at a table with black people."
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|  | | The Rev. Mamie Williams |
"Without a doubt it gave blacks during that period an opportunity to really relate at a deeper level."
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