Rev.
Eugene Carson Blake
President of the National Council of Churches USA, 1954-1957
General Secretary, World Council of Churches, 1966-1974
"We
cannot remain silent on Viet Nam. We should remember that whatever
victory there may be possible, it will have a racial stigma…. It
will always be the case of a predominantly white power killing an
Asian nation. We are interested in peace, not just for Christians
but for the whole of humanity."
– Eugene
Carson Blake
Eugene Carson Blake, sixth from left (in collar), in a meeting
with civil rights workers in the White House, August 28, 1963.
Secretary of Labor
Willard Wirtz, Mathew Ahmann, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
John Lewis, Rabbi Joachin Prinz, Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, A.
Philip Randolph, President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson,
Walter Ruether, Whitney Young, Floyd McKissick. (John F. Kennedy
Library)
