Making Segregation Personal
Sun, May 7th 10am - 11am
Chapel
Gary United Methodist Church 224 North Main Street Wheaton, IL 60187

Making Segregation Personal Sundays, May 7 & 21, 10 a.m., Chapel, led by Dan Lee Despite Chicago's first settler, Jean-Baptiste Point DuSable, being of Haitian descent, from the beginning, Chicago's demographic makeup was segregated by race and ethnicity along neighborhood boundaries. Today, Chicago's segregation is still intact, and it joins a list of large cities with high rates of racial polarization such as Cleveland, Newark, Philadelphia and Houston. As followers of Christ, we need to make segregation personal. You are invited to come and hear personal stories of discrimination, segregation's costs, displacement, promises and perils of integration, and people's efforts to build bridges across communities. Together, we will reflect on what we hear and discuss how we can do no harm and do all the good we can to resist segregation where we live.