[Dialogue] Former ICA Board Member-Victoria Gray Adams

[RICHARD HOWIE]

Thank You Diane and Lynda,
I was fortunate to be serving on our ICA:USA board of directors with  
Vickie.  She was indeed a servant-leader and woman of wondrous  
wisdom.  In reading about all her other involvements over her  
lifetime, how honored we are to know that she deemed ICA worthy of  
her attention and energy!  She even recruited her son Cecil to serve  
on our board too.
Grace and Peace, Ellen Howie
On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Lynda Cock wrote:

> (My sister Diane Galbreath sent me the message about Vickie's  
> death.  I
> started to send it to the dialogue but then asked her to do it  
> since she had
> worked more closely with Vickie.  Our attached correspondence on the
> previous e-mail was an "opps.")
>
> In looking for further info about our colleague Vickie Adams, I  
> found an
> astounding number of entries mentioning her name. What a legacy!!! The
> entry below is from her archived journal at the Civil Rights  
> Library at the
> University of  Southern Mississippi.
> www.fannielouhamer.info/victoria_adams.html.  On the left bottom  
> side of the
> webpage you see "Transcript of Mrs. Adam's Journal  
> 10-63-10-64."     An
> updated address for her son Cecil  Gray is also on the page.
>
> The journal of 1963-64 chronicles the work of a young mother and her
> pioneering efforts in the civil rights movement, the frustration of  
> trying
> to get people involved and properly prepared, encounters with the  
> law, the
> death of her president, struggles with marriage, raising children,  
> death of
> grandchild, all night travel to get to various speaking engagements,
> meetings with Dr. King, Jackie Kennedy, Hubert Humprey, etc.    
> Indeed a
> moving history of the Ordinary Saints who organized the Civil Rights
> Movement.  Reading through the many tributes and history of this  
> amazing
> woman has been an awesome experience this afternoon.  John and I  
> worked with
> her on a planning workshop with a group of Petersburg churches  
> sometime in
> the 90's.  We celebrate her life and contributions to history and  
> indeed to
> our history.
>
> I thought this section from the journal particularly appropriate in  
> light of
> the upcoming anniversary of Gandhi's Non-violence movement.   Lynda  
> Cock
>
> [Editor's note: The following was written in the back of the  
> journal. It
> appears as if Mrs. Adams started on the right side then moved to  
> the left.
> At the top of the right page the names of two books are written:  
> The Art of
> Loving and The Choice to Love.]
>
> 4. Non-violence requires discipline.
> a. physical discipline
> b. intellectual
> c. moral and spiritual discipline
> d. develop and work for an order of life e. discipline of  
> experimentation of
> the proposed projections.
>
> 1. Non-violence is crucial [Non-violence] must be the only approach  
> because:
> a. it is the only right approach
> b. of what we are trying to do - create a beloved community c. of  
> what must
> come after the upheaval - reconciliation
>
> 2. Non-violence - A fundamental attitude about life, agape,  
> aggressive good
> will; seeking, to do the truth in a climate of untruth, through: a.
> Faith-Love
> b. Ends and means must be the same
> c. Recognition of the imperishable human personality d. A trust - A
> confidence in the invisible forces in our life and the universe.
>
> 3. Non-violence cannot be a tactic because a. love cannot be a  
> technic b.
> the weapons of non-violence cannot meet the forces of evil unless  
> it is
> surrounded by the emotional and spiritual fibers of moral c.  
> Openness to the
> spirit of love and nonviolence d. necessity of creativity amid  
> adversity.
>
> 11/8/63
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