Civil Rights revisited by local author
GAITHERSBURG - Fifty years ago, the desegregation of schools in Little Rock, Ark., marked a beginning of desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement.
Those turbulent days are remembered in a new book, 'Crisis of Conscience: Arkansas Methodists and the Civil Rights Struggle,' edited and compiled by the Rev. Jim Clemons, a retired professor at Wesley Theological Seminary who is now living at Asbury Village. He is also the father of the Rev. Margaret Clemons.
The book includes 30 personal stories of people who were deeply involved in the Civil Rights struggle, including that of Carol Beth Cade, also a resident at Asbury Village. She tells of her Methodist preacher father's deep involvement, as well as her own awakening to racial attitudes and prejudice.
Clemons grew up in
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