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Rev. John Hanly Morgan, B.D., M.A., Ph.D., is Unitarian Minister Emeritus of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto, now living in retirement in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. As minister of congregations in North Carolina, Indiana, and Michigan he was active in the American civil rights and peace movements. After moving to Toronto Canada in 1959, he became increasingly involved in the national and international peace and civil rights movements. He was a recipient of the International Lenin Peace Prize in 1983.

Early Life

Born 28 November 1918 in New Albany, Indiana, a small town just across the Ohio River from Louisville Kentucky, he is the son of John Sidney and Vada Elizabeth (Dorn) Morgan. He graduated from New Albany Senior High School in 1938. On 6 September 1942 he married Jeannette, daughter of Wayland and Mae Mutzfeld of Butler, Indiana. They have four children, Lois, David, Lee and Ann.

University

• B.A. Ball State University, 1943
• B.D. Harvard Divinity School, 1946
• M.A. University of Michigan, 1955
• Ph.D. University of South Florida, 1979

Career

Rev. Morgan served as Minister for Unitarian Congregations in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Indiana, and Michigan from 1946 to 1959. He became Minister of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto in Canada in 1959 and Minister Emeritus in 1973. In addition, he was an Instructor in Philosophy at Flint Michigan Community College 1952-56 and Indiana University South Bend Extension Center 1956-59.

Other Offices

• President, Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Conference, 1950-51
• Board Member, Flint Urban League, 1952-56
• Vice-President, Flint Chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1952-56
• Michigan Area Council of Liberal Churches, 1954-55
• Board Member, South Bend Chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1956-59
• Member, Progress Committee, South Bend Council Social Agencies, 1956-59
• Secretary, Unitarian Ministers Association, 1956-60
• Vice-President, Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, 1958-59
• Member, Canadian Committee of Concern for South Africa, 1960-64
• Chairman, Toronto Committee for Survival, 1960-64
• Co-Chairman, Canadians for Middle East Understanding, 1968-70
• President, Canadian Peace Congress, 1972-86
• Vice-President, World Peace Council, 1983-87
• Past Member, Metro Toronto Unitarian Council and Canadian Unitarian Council

Awards

• International Lenin Peace Prize, 1983
• World Peace Council prizes: Joliot-Curie Gold Medal for Peace, 1984

Selected Publications

• Strange Return, (poetry) 1941
• Lifetime, (poetry) 1957
• Kangaroo City, (poetry) 1980
• Hands of Friends, (poetry and prose) 1977
• Receive These Hands, (poetry and prose) 1984
• That We Shall Live, (poetry) 1985
• Journeys from Breakfast, (poetry) 1987
• Surfing the Tidal Wave, (prose) 1994
• Stir Around and Make a Light, (prose) 1997
• Pursuing the Dove: Reminiscences of the Peace Struggle, (prose) 2001

References

• Canadian Who's Who, 2010 Edition
• Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association website
• Canadian Unitarian Council, Press Release January 14, 2009 Press Release January 14, 2009, "Canadian Civil Rights Pioneers Celebrate First African-American President"

Archival Material

• Unitarian material: Harvard Divinity School Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Peace activities and Lenin Peace Prize materials: Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Records from Canadian Peace Congress and World Peace Council: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada