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Lift Up, Wake Up, Grow Up: Religion and Civil Rights in Ferguson

Lift Up, Wake Up, Grow Up: Religion and Civil Rights in Ferguson

Lift Up, Wake Up, Grow Up: Religion and Civil Rights in Ferguson

Prompted by recent social unrest in Ferguson, MO, New York City and Southern California, the Rev. Dr. Cecil Murray, Tansey Chair of Christian Ethics at USC and Chairman of the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, discusses these latest episodes of racially charged tension in the context of historical civil rights struggles in the United States. He also touches on the role of religion as both a source of and a solution to violent conflict.

Cecil Murray – Ferguson from USC CRCC on Vimeo.

Nick Street was a senior writer with the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture.