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Changes Agents: The Lay Movement that Challenged the System and Turned Adventism Toward Racial Justice Book Review
Written by:
, Douglas Morgan, Oak and Acorn Publishing, 2020, 294 pages.
Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, was the spark that ignited the civil rights movement and exposed segregation in such an unsparing light that it was no longer tolerable. The Lucy Byard incident did the same thing for the Adventist Church. The Lucy Byard incident dramatized the need for ending a long-standing pattern of racial abuse and failure and demanded immediate and radical racial changes in Adventism.