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Rev. Clarence James, Sr. is founder and president of Youth
Leadership Development Programs, Inc. He was born and raised on the
west side of Chicago.
While a student at John Marshall High School, he came under the
tutelage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and became a member of his
Southern Christian Leadership Conference staff. His experiences in
the movement spanned the period of civil rights and black power
eras. Rev. James was involved in most of the major movements of that
period including the Open Housing Drive, organizing Tenant Unions,
the student movement, the development of Afro-American studies, the
Meredith March, the Poor People's Campaign and campaigning against
the Vietnam War.
Rev. James began his undergraduate studies at Harvard University
where he was a member of the Standing Committee to Develop the
Afro-American Studies Department. He completed his undergraduate
work at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and went on the earn a
M.A. from Chicago theological Seminary and a Masters in Divinity
from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is currently a
candidate for a Doctorate of Ministry Degree at United Theology
Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
Through his more than 20 years as an ordained Baptist clergyman,
his ministry has been distinguished by his Pan-African perspective
and his activist philosophy. Some of his ministerial experiences
include hospital chaplain, prison chaplain, senior pastor of the
Abyssinian Baptist Church in Rockford Illinois and Minister of
Presence for the United Methodist Conference of Northern Indiana.
Rev. James commitment is to minister to the whole person and seek
the fullest development of the individual, the family and the race
-- spiritually, economically and politically.
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