[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                      TRIBUTE TO DR. KWAME PORTER

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                           HON. MEL REYNOLDS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 25, 1994

  Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to the attention of 
my colleagues, the outstanding work done by a great leader in my 
congressional district, Dr. Kwame Porter of the Christ United Methodist 
Church. Attached is a proclamation I issued Dr. Porter commending him 
for his work.

                              Proclamation

       Whereas Dr. Kwame Porter was born in Mineral Springs, 
     Arkansas as John Porter, due to the transformations brought 
     about in his life today he is identified as Kwame which 
     means, ``one born on a Saturday with a commitment to keeping 
     his peoples' history.'' He is a family man married to June C. 
     Porter, and God has blessed them with six children, John T., 
     Joseph D., Julia M., Jessica R., Jorja A., and Jerrianne C. 
     Porter; and
       Whereas Dr. Porter is a Pastor, Scholar, Prophet, and 
     Community Leader, serving Christ United Methodist Church, 
     Chicago, Illinois since the 1960's, he is a graduate of 
     Kansas Community College, Kansas City, Kansas, Associate Arts 
     Degree 1953, Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 
     Bachelor of Arts Degree 1959, Garrett Evangelical Theological 
     Seminary/Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Master 
     of Divinity Degree 1962, Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
     earning the Ph.D. Degree 1975, he is a prolific writer, the 
     author of the Dating Habits of Young Black Americans ``And 
     All Most Everybody Else Too'' and over eight other books and 
     numerous articles; and
       Whereas Dr. Porter has always been in the vanguard in the 
     struggle for Black Liberation, he was the first minister in 
     Chicago to invite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Chicago and 
     organized the first official Southern Christian Leadership 
     Conference Chapter in Chicago in 1964, Dr. Porter is 
     mentioned in Dempsey Travis' books on the history of Chicago, 
     a Harvard University Study of the Civil Rights Movement, a 
     University of Chicago Study on Chicago and the Civil Rights 
     Movement, and the Oral History Project of Chicago's Civil 
     Rights Movement by the Art Institute and Columbia College, 
     Chicago, Illinois; and
       Whereas Dr. Porter is a builder of men, women, and 
     Institutions he has enabled thirty-one men and women enter 
     the Christian Ministry from various denominational 
     backgrounds, he has created several institutions, the 
     Talented Tenth African American College Prep Project, The 
     Successful Employment Preparation Project, The Winners Circle 
     Business, The Englewood Cluster Umoja-Shalom Village, and the 
     Englewood Alternative Policing Community Organizers cadre: 
     Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Congress of the United States wishes to 
     acknowledge the accomplishments of Dr. Kwame Porter, and the 
     Christ United Methodist Church, Chicago, Illinois on the 
     occasion of Dr. Porter's thirty-three years in the Ministry, 
     by entering these accomplishments into the Congressional 
     Record and Archives of the One Hundred and Third Congress of 
     the United States of America.

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