United Liberal Church, 1954

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The United Liberal Church in Atlanta reopened as an integrated congregation in 1954, after being closed by the American Unitarian Association in 1951 for practicing racial segregation. Members of the new church became active in the civil rights movement.

Courtesy of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta Records, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University

United Liberal Church, 1954

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