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The Rev. Dr. Irvin Moxley is dead at age 87

Posted November 11th, 2021

The Rev. Dr. Irvin (Irv) Moxley, the second African American student to graduate from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, died on Oct. 26 at the age of 87.

Educator, activist and peacemaker the Rev. Dean Lewis is remembered

Posted June 25th, 2021

The Rev. Dean H. Lewis died at age 94 on June 14 at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Civil rights legend speaks to Presbyterian educators

Posted January 29th, 2020

With the authority of someone who’s been important to the civil rights movement since she was a 15-year-old high school junior, Elizabeth Ann Eckford offered the annual gathering of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators Wednesday a firsthand account of her year as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the African American students chosen in 1957 to begin the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are unconstitutional.