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The Reverend Maurice F. McCrackin led one of the most colorful lives of the 20th Century. He was one of the founders of the modern War Tax Resistance and Peace Movements, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and a local social justice campaigner who advocated for the poor and the disinherited of his church and the larger Cincinnati community. McCrackin’s life intersected with nearly every religious and social change leader of the 20th Century, including Martin Luther King Jr., Anne & Carl Braden, Myles Horton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Rosa Parks, Dan & Phil Berrigan, and countless lesser-known activists who put their lives on the line to build a better world. The Pilgrimage of a Conscience explores McCrackin’s life in the context of local and world events that helped to change the our understanding of what it meant to be a champion for peace and justice.
