Maurice McCrackin

Maurice McCrackin (1905-1997) was an American civil rights and peace activist, tax resister and Presbyterian minister. McCrackin started a community church in Cincinnati after gaining notoriety for refusing to pay federal taxes. Many of his former parishioners followed him to the small building on Dayton Street in Cincinnati where he preached, ran services, baptized babies, and performed weddings and funerals.

He was a principled pacifist all of his life. He was active in the struggle for racial equality and an end to militarism in the United States. McCrackin was well known to the state's attorneys office as he was arrested over and over again in protests. Rev. McCrackin was also active in the fight for prisoner's rights and spent much time visiting convicts. Once, he was abducted by a man that he had visited in jail and rather than see him incarcerated again, refused to testify against him. The district attorney in Cincinnati jailed McCrackin for weeks because of this incident.

Quotes

"To give financial support to war while at the same time preaching against it is, to me, no longer a tenable position."

External links

• Horstman, Barry M (1999-07-26). "Rev. Maurice McCrackin: Minister had passion for justice". The Cincinnati Post (E. W. Scripps Company). Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20070313001142/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1999/mccrac072699.html. 

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Name	Maccrackin, Maurice
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Date of birth	1905
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Date of death	1997
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