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As he approached his 100th birthday in 2021, the Reverend J.
Phillips Noble reflected on his journey from segregated rural
Mississippi to being a white progressive pastor in Anniston,
Alabama, at the height of the 20th century civil rights movement.
In Anniston, where white supremacists famously burned the Freedom
Riders' bus in 1961, and committed other violence and intimidation,
Noble became a voice of reconciliation and justice. He worked with
local leaders, black and white, to move the community past the
divisions of Jim Crow segregation. Noble served on the local
interracial commission established by the city, and he formed
enduring friendships with black ministers. His short reflection on
this history and the role he and his family played in it is an
affirming declaration of faith and fellowship.
Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham
and Atlanta. In 1961, the city's potential for race-related
violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed
a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident a few black and
white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that
desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the
community than to divide it, and created a biracial Human Relations
Council which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation
laws and customs. The Council did not prevent all disorder in
Anniston, yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights
bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties.
Phil Noble, a Presbyterian Minister in Anniston and participant in
the Council, offers his account of the events, carefully researched
but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the
civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were
in it or those who were opposed to it.
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