Ibrahim Ramey, Phillips Academy '67
Clayton Ramey, coordinator of
Disarmament and Racial Dialogue Programs for the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
is the guest speaker.
Ramey was born in Norfolk, Va., in
1949 and grew up during the era of Southern U.S. racial segregation. His earliest
childhood memories of white people were
from "television, movies and the downtown
coffee shop in Woolworth's, where
Momma could shop for a cheap table cloth
but not eat at the lunch counter."
At 15, Ramey won a full scholarship
to the prestigious Phillips Academy in
Andover, Mass., where he excelled in debating and became an active member of the
schoolís Civil Rights club.
Ramey is a graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania. He taught in the Urban
Studies Institute of LaSalle College and at
the Germantown High School in Philadelphia.Through the 1970s and 80s, Ramey
worked for a number of organizations and
traveled extensively around the world
working for peace and advocating non-violence.Ramey was also an investment broker
on Wall Street before taking his current
post as the coordinator of disarmament and
racial dialogue programs for the Fellowship
of Reconciliation in New York City.
In 1993, Ramey embraced the religion
of Islam, taking the Muslim name Ibrahim
Malik Abdil-Muíid.
One of his latest programs is the
"Legacy Project" designed to uplift, clarify
and amplify Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.ís
vision of the Beloved Community.
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