Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy cid_1102 A history of the UUA

A history of the UUA journey toward becoming an anti-racist

simplicity

and an openly gay man

and employer-sponsored plans

Words ancient and modern on life's final passage

Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy cid_1102 A history of the UUAMark D. Morrison Reed, the preeminent scholar of black Unitarian Universalist history, presents this long awaited chronicle and analysis of the events of the Empowerment Controversy, which rocked Unitarian Universalism in the late sixties and continues to reverberate. It was a time of revolution, of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Like the country, the young Unitarian Universalist Association was forced to reckon with demands for change