Bishop John Hurst Adams (’50, ’56)
From “The State,” a Columbia, SC newspaper:
The Rev. John Hurst Adams, a nationwide religious and civil rights leader, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., a Columbia native and one of the strongest voices for removing the Confederate flag from the S.C. State House dome, died Wednesday.
Adams stood out in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and among activists in the nation’s fight for racial justice, bringing the two platforms together for a time in South Carolina.
More can be read about the life of Bishop John Hurst Adams here.
You can view his funeral book here: Rev John Hurst Adams Funeral Book