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Dr. A. Knighton Stanley
A. Knighton Stanley has served as Senior Minister of Peoples
Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC since
1968. He is a graduate of Talladega College and holds a Master's
Degree from Yale University and a Doctorate from Howard University.
Before coming to Washington, he served as Associate Pastor
of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Detroit,
Michigan.
Upon graduation from Yale University in 1962, he became Director
of the Southern Christian Fellowship Foundation at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical University, and in 1964 he joined
the faculty and administration of Bennett College. In both
of these positions he was active in the 1963 phase of the
Greensboro, North Carolina Civil Rights Movement. He served
as advisor to the local chapter of the Congress of Racial
Equality and was appointed to the Human Rights Commission
of the City of Greensboro.
Dr. Stanley has distinguished himself in many capacities
in the District of Columbia. During the Bicentennial era,
he served as Executive Director of the Office of Bicentennial
Programs of the Nation's Capital and Special Assistant to
Walter E. Washington, then Mayor of the District of Columbia.
He served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University
of the District of Columbia. He is presently a member of the
Advisory Board of Industrial Bank of Washington, and serves
on the Judiciary Nominating Committee for the Superior Court
and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. He is
the founder and General Secretary of the Petworth Assembly
and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Interfaith
Alliance. He is Founding President of the Faith Based Community
Action Partnership, an organization that, in conjunction with
the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, addresses the
needs of youth.
He has served his Denomination in numerous capacities: He
was a member of the Committee on Theological Education; a
member of the Council for Christian Social Action; President
of Ministers for Racial and Social Justice; a member of the
Board of the Office of Communications. Most recently he served
as a member of the New Century Hymnal Committee; a member
of the Nominating Committee of the General Synod; a member
of the Large Gifts Committee of the Denomination's Capital
Funds Campaign; and presently serves as a consultant for the
revision of the Book of Worship for the United Church of Christ.
He served on the Church in Ministry Committee of the Potomac
Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ.
Dr. Stanley was Chair of the Board of Ministers' Life Insurance
Company, which is now a part of Minnesota Life. He was founding
President of the Collaboration of African American Men and
Boys, a program of the Kellogg Foundation. He is a member
of the Board of Advisors of the Yale University Divinity School.
Dr. Stanley is the writer of many articles, former publisher
of "The New American Missionary," and the author
of The Children is Crying. He has traveled extensively
in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. He is
the father of three children: Nathaniel Taylor Stanley, a
graduate of Morehouse College, who lives and works in the
District of Columbia; Kathryn Velma Stanley, a graduate of
Spelman College and the University of Virginia School of Law,
and an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia; and Taylor Marie Stanley
a successful and enthusiastic tenth grade student at Holton-Arms
School for Girls in Bethesda, Maryland. He is married to Andrea
I. Young, an attorney who is a Vice President of the National
Black Child Development Institute and author of the book,
Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me, Putnam & Sons,
2000.
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