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27-August-1997 
97337 
 
    Hawkins-Buchanan Fund for Racial 
    Justice Approaches the $2,000 Mark 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Announced in June on the first anniversary of the burning 
of Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C, the 
Hawkins-Buchanan Fund for Racial Justice is approaching the $2,000 mark, a 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation official said here Aug. 26. 
 
    Thomas R. Drake, the Foundation's audit associate for gift compliance, 
said $1,893 has been placed in the fund as of July 31. 
 
    "We've gotten a few more additions in [August], but they haven't been 
posted yet," Drake told the Presbyterian News Service. 
 
    The $1 million endowment is named in honor of the late Rev. Edler 
Garnett Hawkins (1908- 1977) and the Rev. John M. Buchanan, both noted 
Presbyterian ecumenical, civic and community leaders. In 1958, Hawkins was 
elected as the first African-American moderator of the Presbytery of New 
York City and in 1964 was elected as the first African-American moderator 
of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 
Hawkins also served as chair of the Commission on Religion and Race, the 
Council of Church and Race of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 
the Presbyterian Economic Development Corporation and the Witherspoon 
Development Corporation. 
 
    Buchanan, in his first official visit as moderator of the 208th General 
Assembly (1996), traveled to Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in 
Charlotte, N.C., after it had been burned June 6, 1996, and had 
conversations with clergy and laity on antiracism initiatives and racial 
reconciliation. Buchanan, pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, 
also visited Mt. Zoar and Little Zion Baptist churches, two burned 
African-American churches in Boligee, Ala., where he reaffirmed the 
denomination's commitment to racial justice and its determination to turn 
tragedy into a catalyst for good. 
 
    Under the terms of the endowment, which is managed by the Foundation, 
once the fund has reached $1 million, 90 percent of the income will be paid 
to the Racial Justice Program Area of the National Ministries Division 
(NMD) or its successor and the remaining 10 percent will be reinvested in 
perpetuity. 
 
    The Racial Justice Program Area will use the money from the fund to 
support programs of racial justice, reconciliation and healing in the 
church and society. These programs include antiracism training, resource 
development for racial justice ministries, racial justice policy 
development, community organizing ministries, cultural exchanges and racial 
conflict resolution. 
 
    Presbyterians wanting to give to the endowment can mail their gifts to: 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation, 200 E. Twelfth Street, 
Jeffersonville, IN 47130. The account number for the endowment is 58409. 

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