Jim
Bio: Retired Architect, I am a committed to working for racial justice. As a young boy growing up in the South in the 50’s and 60’s, I experienced the dissonance between having a good black friend and the segregated world around me. I wish I could say I wasn’t affected by the racism and that is not the case, I’m still in recovery from it. My work has included co-leading a racial justice pilgrimage for my church, Community UCC in Raleign, NC, to sites associated with the civil rights struggle of the 50’s and 60’s inBirmingham, Selma and Montgomery Alabama as well as Atlanta Georgia.. I am co-chair of the churches Racial Justice Project. I am also on the steering committee of the Wake County Community Remembrance Coalition which is working with the Equal Justice Initiative to memorialize George Taylor, the victim of racial terror lynching in 1918 and connect the dots to todays issues of mass incarceration and police violence.