Phillips, Channing E. (Channing Emery), 1928-1987

found: Washington Post, 11/12/87(Rev. Channing Phillips, civic activist, politician, former Washington clergyman, 59, d. 11/11/87 in New York City; Channing E. Phillips, minister of Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ, Washington, D.C.; executive dir. of Housing Development Corp., vice pres. at Virginia Union Univ., dir. of congressional relations for National Endowment for the Humanities, minister of planning and coordination at Riverside Church, N.Y.C.)

found: WWA 1987/87(Phillips, Channing Emery, clergyman, former univ. adm., b. 3/23/1928)

found: African American National Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Phillips, Channing E.; political figure, civil rights activist; born 23 March 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, United States; held a bachelor's in Sociology from Virginia Union University (1950); a first divinity degree from the Colgate-Rochester School of Divinity in Rochester, New York (1953); completed graduate training (LDH and the DD) at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey (1953-1956); marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama (1965); campaigned in New York for the Democratic Party nomination for president, was the first African American nominated at a major convention (1968); was a member of the executive committee and of the rules commission (1968-1972); came in third in an election to become Washington's first nonvoting member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971); was a congressional liaison for the National Endowment for the Humanities (1978-1982); was an influential figure in local politics in New York in 1970's; died 11 November 1987 in New York)