Sun 1/8 @ 3PM
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. was pastor at Cleveland’s enormous Olivet Institutional Baptist Church from 1975 until his retirement from daily leadership in 2008 becoming one of northeast Ohio’s most prominent civic voices.
Prior to that, he had been active in the Civil Rights Movement, leading sit-ins to protest segregation while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta in the late 1950s, becoming close with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., participating in the Selma Civil Rights March, and serving as regional director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference while pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Lockland, outside Cincinnati, from 1961 to 1975.
Moss, who serves on the board of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, will be at the museum to talk about his memories of the Civil Rights Era in conversation with civil rights attorney Avery Friedman. Tickets are $12 or $6 for museum members, and includes museum admission. You’ll want to arrive early to see the current exhibit, This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, which visually reflects on some of the same events Moss will be talking about. Space is limited so go to maltzmuseum or call 216-593-0575 to reserve your seat.
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