Calvin Morris
Template:TOCnestleft Calvin Morris has served as Associate Director[1]of the Southern Christian Leadership Congress Operation Bread Basket (now Rainbow-Push) under Martin Luther King and as Director of the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta with Coretta Scott King.
Early life
Calvin Morris grew up in North Philadelphia where his mother was a chambermaid in a hotel and his father a sanitation worker.
At age 12-13 he began going to a Quaker school where he learned about pacifism and non-violence...
His life of activism began with fund raising[2] for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and for the Hungarian revolution.
Academic/community posts
Calvin Morris has worked at Simmon's College in Boston, Howard School of Divinity in Washington DC, the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and the CRS in Chicago.
2002 Chicago DSA awards dinner MC
The 44th Annual Chicago Democratic Socialists of America Debs - Thomas - Harrington Dinner, was held May 10, 2002, in Chicago. MC was Reverend Dr. Calvin Morris.
Carl Shier presented the Debs - Thomas - Harrington Dinner Award to labor attorney Barbara Hillman
Roberta Lynch presented the Debs - Thomas - Harrington Award to Tom Balanoff of the SEIU Building Services Division.
Professor Douglass Cassel gave the 44th Annual Debs - Thomas - Harrington Address.[3]
Jobs with Justice
In 2009 Calvin Morris served as a Board Member for Jobs with Justice[4]. Community Renewal Society and Chicago Jobs with Justice Co-chair