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HYMN: “HOLY. HOLY, HOLY”

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee;Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, holy, holy! All the saints adore Thee,Casting down their golden crowns around the

glassy sea;Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Thee,Who was, and is, and evermore shall be.

Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide Thee,Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see;Only Thou art holy; there is none beside Thee,Perfect in pow’r, in love, and purity.

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!All Thy works shall praise Thy Name, in earth,

and sky, and sea;Holy, holy, holy; merciful and mighty!God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

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today’s litanyBLACK HISTORY OBSERVANCE LITANY

Leader: Oh God, you have heard the anguished cries of our ancestors. Their sounds echoand penetrate time to remind us of our foreparents who were brutally captured andforcibly enslaved, as they left the peaceful womb of their African homeland.

People: “Stony the road we trod.”

Leader: Oh God, you have seen the millions of dark bodies buried beneath the tumultuouswaves of the deep. Bodies of African men and women who held the seeds ofgreatness. You have seen women’s dreams for a united family vanish as they weresold at auction blocks. You have seen the legacy of the African American familydecimated and demeaned by those who have attempted to control our destiny.

People: “Bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died.”

Leader: Oh God, you have ignited the sparks within us into a blazing demand for freedom,equality and justice. This quest cost Harriet Tubman sleepless nights, as she led herpeople to freedom; it was an equality that Rosa Parks and civil rights activists foughtfor and gave their lives for; it was ajustice that Martin Luther King, Jr. stood for, as thousands stood with him at theLincoln Memorial.

People: “Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place for which ourfathers sighed?”

Leader: Oh God, you have seen our tears. You have been pained by the evil of humanhearts. Yet, you loved humanity enough that you sent your only Son to identify withthe outcast, marginalized and rejected. As the cries of Jesus pierced your heart, sohave the cries of your people – cries from different cultures and in differentlanguages.

People: “God of our weary years, God of our silent tears.”

Leader: Oh God, you answered us during our exodus from Africa. You wiped everyteardrop during our exile in captivity. Our foreparents dared to dream that oneday, on these shores, we would become politicians, preachers, educators, doctors,writers, scientists, artists and so much more.

People: “Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.”

Leader: Our ancestors’ hard work, their courage, their convictions, and their belief in youpaved the way for our emancipation and education. But it is clear, you haveliberated us. You have set us free. “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty,I’m free at last!”

All: “Lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world we forget Thee. Shadowedbeneath Thy hand, may we forever stand. True to our God and true to our nativeland.”

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ACTS 6:1-4 (NLT)1 But as the believers rapidly multiplied, there were rumblings of discontent. TheGreek-speaking believers complained about the Hebrew-speaking believers, sayingthat their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food. 2So the Twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said, “We apostles shouldspend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program. 3 And so,brothers, select seven men who are well respected and are full of the Spirit andwisdom. We will give them this responsibility. 4 Then we apostles can spend our timein prayer and teaching the word.”

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ASSOCIATE PASTORPart of the process is for the congregationto elect an Associate Pastor NominatingCommittee (APNC)

In order for there to be representationfrom the congregation, this is the criteriafor the committee:

(2) High school students (9-12 grades)(3) females - age 18 and above(2) males - age 18 and above(1) person - age 46-64(1) person - 65 and over

Please submit nominations by Sunday,March 13, 2016. Ballots and ballots boxesare in vestibule and kiosk areas.

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Civil Rights TimelineMilestones in the modern civil rights movement

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JULY 26Truman signs Executive Order 9981, whichstates, "It is hereby declared to be the policy ofthe President that there shall be equality oftreatment and opportunity for all persons in thearmed services without regard to race, color,religion, or national origin."

MAY 17The Supreme Court rules on thelandmark case Brown v. Boardof Education of Topeka, Kans.,unanimously agreeing that seg-regation in public schools is un-constitutional. The ruling pavesthe way for large-scale deseg-regation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessyv. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separatebut equal" segregation of the races, ruling that"separate educational facilities are inherentlyunequal." It is a victory for NAACP attorney Thur-good Marshall, who will later return to theSupreme Court as the nation's first black justice.

AUGUSTFourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visit-ing family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped,brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Talla-hatchie River for allegedly whistling at a whitewoman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and RoyBryant, are arrested for the murder and acquit-ted by an all-white jury. They later boast aboutcommitting the murder in a Look magazine in-terview. The case becomes a cause célèbre ofthe civil rights movement.

DECEMBER 1(Montgomery, Ala.) NAACP

member Rosa Parks refusesto give up her seat at thefront of the "colored section"of a bus to a white passen-ger, defying a southern cus-tom of the time. In responseto her arrest the Mont-gomery black community launches a bus boy-cott, which will last for more than a year, untilthe buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. Asnewly elected president of the MontgomeryImprovement Association (MIA), Reverend Mar-tin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading theboycott.

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JANUARY – FEBRUARYMartin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and FredL. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern ChristianLeadership Conference, of which King is madethe first president. The SCLC becomes a majorforce in organizing the civil rights movementand bases its principles on nonviolence andcivil disobedience. According to King, it is es-sential that the civil rights movement not sink tothe level of the racists and hatemongers whooppose them: "We must forever conduct ourstruggle on the high plane of dignity and disci-pline," he urges.

SEPTEMBER(Little Rock, Ark.)Formerly all-whiteCentral High Schoollearns that integra-tion is easier saidthan done. Nineblack students areblocked from entering the school on the ordersof Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisen-hower sends federal troops and the NationalGuard to intervene on behalf of the students,who become known as the "Little Rock Nine."

FEBRUARY 1(Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students fromNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical Col-lege begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth'slunch counter. Although they are refused serv-ice, they are allowed to stay at the counter.The event triggers many similar nonviolentprotests throughout the South. Six months laterthe original four protesters are served lunch atthe same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-inswould be effective throughout the Deep Southin integrating parks, swimming pools, theaters,libraries, and other public facilities.

APRIL(Raleigh, N.C.) The Student Nonviolent Coordi-nating Committee (SNCC) is founded at ShawUniversity, providing young blacks with a placein the civil rights movement. The SNCC latergrows into a more radical organization, espe-cially under the leadership of StokelyCarmichael from 1966–1967.MAY 4Over the spring and summer, student volun-

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MAY 4Over the spring and summer, student volun-teers begin taking bus trips through the South totest out new laws that prohibit segregation ininterstate travel facilities, which includes busand railway stations. Several of the groups of"freedom riders," as they are called, are at-tacked by angry mobs along the way. The pro-gram, sponsored by The Congress of RacialEquality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), involves morethan 1,000 volunteers, black and white.

OCTOBER 1James Meredith becomes the first black stu-dent to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Vi-olence and riots surrounding the incident causePresident Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.

APRIL 16Martin Luther King is arrestedand jailed during anti-segre-gation protests in Birming-ham, Ala.; he writes hisseminal "Letter from Birming-ham Jail," arguing that indi-viduals have the moral dutyto disobey unjust laws.

MAYDuring civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala.,Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull"Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs onblack demonstrators.

JUNE 12(Jackson, Miss.) Mississippi's NAACP field secre-tary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murderedoutside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is triedtwice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries.Thirty years later he is convicted for murderingEvers.

AUG. 28(Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people jointhe March on Washington. Congregating at theLincoln Memorial, participants listen as MartinLuther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream"speech.

SEPTEMBER 15(Birmingham, Ala.) Four young girls (Denise Mc-Nair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, andAddie Mae Collins) attending Sunday schoolare killed when a bomb explodes at the Six-teenth Street Baptist Church, a popular loca-tion for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt inBirmingham, leading to the deaths of two moreblack youths.

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The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax,which originally had been instituted in 11 south-ern states after Reconstruction to make it diffi-cult for poor blacks to vote.

SUMMERThe Council of Federated Organizations(COFO), a network of civil rights groups that in-cludes CORE and SNCC, launches a massiveeffort to register black voters during what be-comes known as the Freedom Summer. It alsosends delegates to the Democratic NationalConvention to protest—and attempt to un-seat—the official all-white Mississippi contin-gent.

JULY 2President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislationsince Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act pro-hibits discrimination of all kinds based on race,color, religion, or national origin. The law alsoprovides the federal government with the pow-ers to enforce desegregation.

AUGUST 4(Neshoba Country, Miss.) The bodies of threecivil-rights workers—two white, one black—arefound in an earthen dam, six weeks into a fed-eral investigation backed by President Johnson.James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21;and Michael Schwerner, 24, had been workingto register black voters in Mississippi, and, onJune 21, had gone to investigate the burning ofa black church. They were arrested by the po-lice on speeding charges, incarcerated for sev-eral hours, and then released after dark intothe hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murderedthem.

FEBRUARY 21(Harlem, N.Y.) Malcolm X, blacknationalist and founder of theOrganization of Afro-AmericanUnity, is shot to death. It is be-lieved the assailants are mem-bers of the Black Muslim faith,which Malcolm had recentlyabandoned in favor of orthodoxIslam.

MARCH 7(Selma, Ala.) Blacks begin a march to Mont-gomery in support of voting rights but arestopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police block-ade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after policeuse tear gas, whips, and clubs against them.The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday" by themedia. The march is considered the catalyst forpushing through the voting rights act fivemonths later.

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AUGUST 10Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965,making it easier for Southern blacks to registerto vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and othersuch requirements that were used to restrictblack voting are made illegal.

AUGUST 11–17, 1965(Watts, Calif.) Race riots erupt in a black sec-tion of Los Angeles.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1965Asserting that civil rights laws alone are notenough to remedy discrimination, PresidentJohnson issues Executive Order 11246, whichenforces affirmative action for the first time. Itrequires government contractors to "take affir-mative action" toward prospective minorityemployees in all aspects of hiring and employ-ment.

OCTOBER(Oakland, Calif.) The militantBlack Panthers are foundedby Huey Newton and BobbySeale.

APRIL 19Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),coins the phrase "black power" in a speech inSeattle. He defines it as an assertion of blackpride and "the coming together of black peo-ple to fight for their liberation by any meansnecessary." The term's radicalism alarms manywho believe the civil rights movement's effec-tiveness and moral authority crucially dependon nonviolent civil disobedience.

JUNE 12In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rulesthat prohibiting interracial marriage is unconsti-tutional. Sixteen states that still banned interra-cial marriage at the time are forced to revisetheir laws.

APRIL 4(Memphis, Tenn.) Martin Luther King, at age 39,is shot as he stands on the balcony outside hishotel room. Escapedconvict and commit-ted racist James EarlRay is convicted of thecrime.

APRIL 11President Johnsonsigns the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting dis-crimination in the sale, rental, and financing ofhousing.

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APRIL 20The Supreme Court,in Swann v. Char-lotte-MecklenburgBoard ofEducation, upholdsbusing as a legiti-mate means forachieving integra-tion of publicschools. Althoughlargely unwelcome(and sometimes vi-olently opposed) inlocal school dis-tricts, court-orderedbusing plans incities such as Char-lotte, Boston, and Denver con-tinue until the late 1990s.

MARCH 22Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congresspasses the Civil Rights Restoration Act, whichexpands the reach of non-discrimination lawswithin private institutions receiving federalfunds.

NOVEMBER 22After two years of debates, vetoes, and threat-ened vetoes, President Bush reverses himselfand signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991, strength-ening existing civil rights laws and providing fordamages in cases of intentional employmentdiscrimination.

APRIL 29(Los Angeles, Calif.) The first race riots indecades erupt in south-central Los Angelesafter a jury acquits four white police officers forthe videotaped beating of African AmericanRodney King.

JUNE 23In the most important affirmative action deci-sion since the 1978 Bakke case, the SupremeCourt (5–4) upholds the University of MichiganLaw School's policy, ruling that race can beone of many factors considered by collegeswhen selecting their students because it fur-thers "a compelling interest in obtaining the ed-ucational benefits that flow from a diversestudent body."

JUNE 21The ringleader of the Mississippi civil rights mur-ders (see Aug. 4, 1964), Edgar Ray Killen, is con-victed of manslaughter on the 41st anniversaryof the crimes.

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2006 OCTOBER 24Rosa Parks dies at age 92.

JANUARY 30Coretta Scott King dies of a stroke at age 78.

FEBRUARYEmmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Depart-ment of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two con-fessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead ofcancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidenceto pursue further convictions.

JANUARYSenator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduces the Civil RightsAct of 2008. Some of the proposed provisions include ensur-ing that federal funds are not used to subsidize discrimina-tion, holding employers accountable for age discrimination,and improving accountability for other violations of civilrights and workers' rights.

NOVEMBERBarack H. Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senatorfrom Illinois, shattered morethan 200 years of history bywinning election as theFIRST AFRICAN-AMERICANPRESIDENT of the UnitedStates. He was elected the44th President of the UnitedStates on November 4,2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009.

He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of twodaughters, Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9.

NOVEMBERPresident Barack Obama wins re-election as President of theUnited States.

JUNEA new museum, the National Center for Civil and HumanRights, opens in Atlanta.

SEPTEMBERThe Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation intopolice practices in Ferguson, Mo., where a Michael Brown,an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a whitepolice officer on Aug. 9. The Justice Department investiga-tion is in addition to the FBI's civil rights inquiry.

JUNEAfter the release of a Justice Department report in Marchdocumenting civil rights violations by the Ferguson PoliceDepartment, Ferguson officials reach a deal with the JusticeDepartment, avoiding a civil rights lawsuit. The agreementwill necessitate the levying of new taxes to pay for theplanned improvements and require local vote.

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2015A century-and-a-half separate these two

photos - a slave beaten near to death,and a young senator elected 44th Presi-dent of the United States. This is the storyof the African Americans’ journey from

degradation to dignity.

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RESURRECTION CELEBRATIONPalm Sunday: March 20

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