Conference on Religion and Race
Diocesan Press Service. December 10, 1962 [V-19]
Twenty-five bishops, priests and lay persons will represent the Episcopal Church at the National Conference on Religion and Race to be held Jan. 14 - 17 in Chicago. This is the first national meeting to be convened jointly by all the major faith groups.
Conveners of the inter-religious conference are the Department of Racial and Cultural Relations of the National Council of Churches; the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; and the Social Action Commission of the Synagogue Council of America.
More than 60 groups will send 800 leaders to take part in the conference which will provide an occasion for a serious and concrete examination of the role of churches in meeting religious and civic racial problems.
Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger said, "the inter-religious conference on inter-racial justice will be an event of immense significance for all the people of our country. It will be concerned with one of the most crucial problems of our day."