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Bethesda Presbyterian: A Racial Reckoning

  • Bethesda Presbyterian Church 7611 Clarendon Road Bethesda, MD, 20814 (map)

Join us to learn of one local Presbyterian church’s efforts to name, claim and heal its own hard historic legacy of racism.

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Presenter: Ron Grim, Ruling Elder, Bethesda Presbyterian Church and Curator of Maps Emeritus, Boston Public Library.

Join us for Ron’s preliminary examination of church and census records to determine and assess the slave-holding abominations of Bethesda Presbyterian families on the eve of the Civil War.

He will do so with an eye toward reparations that eventually may be made.

Earlier Event: April 25
Sunday Worship
Later Event: May 1
Scripture Discussion