'In Between' author sheds light on our integrated past

This Friday, April 20th, area residents have the chance to meet and talk with Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed, author and speaker, who will be discussing Race, Diversity and Integration, in the context of his memoir "In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby."

Morrison-Reed, a native of the South Side Chicago, grew up in a mixed-race family during the height of the Civil Rights era. His memoir elicits the angst and struggle of being raised both and neither black nor white.

Ordained in 1979, Morrison-Reed became only the eighteenth black person to receive ministerial fellowship in the history of the UUA or its predecessor denominations; he was also only the second Afro-American raised in Unitarian Universalism to become a UU minister.

Morrison-Reed came of age at a moment in our nation's and our denomination's history that has given him a unique window onto our pain around race. He revisits that era in his book, In Between.

., in the Lovell Room of the Stratford Public Library. It is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend.

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This exclusive event is sponsored by the Stratford Public Library and the 175th Anniversary Committee of the U