Andrew J. Young was for a while a United Church of Christ minister. He also worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the non-violent movement. He and his wife, Jean, were assigned to the National Council of Churches in New York City. Source: www.achievement.org Young said of this work, "'I am a black-born, Unitarian-bred minister of the liberal faith. I am an anomaly. My allegiance is split." So begins Mark Morrison-Reed's frank and revealing account of how blacks experience religion in America's white churches. Through the stories of two pioneering black ministers--Egbert Brown, founder of the first Unitarian Church in Harlem, and Lewis A. McGee, who started the Interracial Free Religious Fellowship in Chicago's black ghetto--the Reverend Morrison-Reed provides insight into the disturbing and widespread problem of racism in religion.
"His message speaks to all blacks and whites who seek equity, justice, and harmony in this nation. Morrison-Reed speaks powerfully to the issues of both classism and racism, which to some degree effect every church or temple in America. This book is well indexed."