- Autobiography
- A Break in Family
- Childhood Years
- Judging People on My Experience
- At Home
- Parents, Home, Neighbors
- Early Lessons about Race/Ethnicity
- Early “Organizational” Life
- Church and Christian Contradictions
- Silent Prejudices
- Classes and Class
- College & the Beginning of the End of Innocence
- War without War
- A Lesson in Manipulative Power
- Decision for Ministry
- Preparing for Ministry
- Academic Major at Amherst
- Extra-Curricula Learning at Amherst – Enter Bill & Alice Wimer
- Unrecognized Introduction to Feminism
- Sylvia
- Andover Newton Theological School
- Church Pastorates
- Denominational Staff Ministry
- Wakefield
- From “Black Problem” to “White Problem”
- Stealth-Like Learnings: “Sexism”, “Racism” and Institutions
- Shifting Sands of Faith Demand Action
- Advancing “dis-ease”
- Changing View of the World
- The New Beginning
- Genesis of Community Change, Inc.
- The Early Years at CCI
- Boston’s Struggle for Equal Schools
- Attention to National Issues
- People Participating = Hope
- Enter: James Baldwin
- White Identity Challenged
- Urgency Requires Anti-Apartheid Action
- Suburban Operations Simulation
- Police Brutality
- Local Organizing and Seeking Ways to Combat Racism
- The Move to Boston
- “People”, “People”, “People”
- Moral Man and Immoral Society
- The “office” not an “OFFICE”
- Probing History Moves to the Center of Work
- Affirmative Action
- Little GIANTS
- Expanding the Work
- National Day of Mourning
- Chinatown and Beyond
- “People” not “leaders”
- 1492 Becomes 1992
- Harassment of Black Leaders
- Immigrant Action
- The Photography Collective
- Following (not very well!) Freire
- Enter Derrick Bell
- Using “Privilege to Subvert “Privilege”
- Becoming a Historian
- On the Trail Where Yesterday Inspires, Challenges Today
Wakefield then became our family home, April, 1959. My ministry was with junior and senior high school youth, providing statewide programs for the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ (then the Massachusetts Congregational Conference) in its churches. Sylvia settled into Wakefield, and became active in organizing a local group working on race relations. She was also active with the Greater Boston Fair Housing Federation, building a small but strong group of activists. Her knowledge, ability, and leadership earned respect in the community. My work took me around the state often, involved me also in national church planning, and left time only to give minimal support to her efforts in the town.
Our home in Wakefield was a six-room house, located on a side street very close to the center of town, and practically just across the street from a school to which David and Gary went through the sixth grade. The house was an old but well-kept building, set on a yard which afforded large play space, and a garage for the car. We were within easy walking distance of the train, convenient for my daily trips to Boston. Major highways were also close, easily accessible for my frequent trips around the state.