Fellowship of Reconciliation

He strived for equal rights for Afri- African Americans and for an end to segregation.

He founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which still exists as the Episcopal Peace Fellowship.

He served as director of that fellowship for a decade, and during that decade, Bishop Jones traveled the country speaking in synagogues and colleges and churches as an apostle of Christ's peace.

Later, he spent over a decade at Antioch College in Ohio, serving as chaplain and professor of religion.

Musty and Kirby Page and Dorothy Day, all of whom would go on to become important figures in the peace movement in the United States.

They also helped found the Fellowship of Reconciliation, or FOUR, which advocated on behalf of conscientious objectors and encouraged nonviolent alternatives to conflict.

And then, after the war ended, many of these American peace activists began to expand their horizons, and they saw connections between non-violence in anti-war movements and non-violence in the anti-imperial struggle.

There was, for instance, Richard Gregg, a young activist who'd been involved in the anti-war movement in the United States, who traveled to India in 1925.

And then we have the civil rights movement in the United States, which brought together many of the different strains of non-violent resistance in the 20th century.

Like during World War II, civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin met A.J.

Musty and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and they spent much of the war protesting racial discrimination in the armed forces.

But at the same time, Rustin was also becoming increasingly aware of the injustice of British colonialism in India, Africa and began to protest that as well.

In 1966, I got a letter from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to come for a series of lecture.

And that was arranged by the Fellowship of Reconciliation in New York for me to get out of the country and to call for a cessation of hostilities in Vietnam.

The purpose is to come and call for help and not just to give a series of lecture on the situation of Southeast Asia.

So after, after the series of lecture in Cornell, uh, I tour the country, North America, uh, to speak about the war in Vietnam, the real, the real situation of the war in Vietnam, how people suffer and how people want to stop the war.

[laughs] And he spoke about the beloved community.

You know that we both belong to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which is an organization working for peace and reconciliation.

We both hold, um, responsibilities in the organization.

And he has spoken, uh, a few times about, uh, the beloved community.