[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)] [Extensions of Remarks] [Page E] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [Congressional Record: May 26, 1994] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] TRIBUTE TO DR. KWAME PORTER ______ HON. MEL REYNOLDS of illinois in the house of representatives Wednesday, May 25, 1994 Mr. REYNOLDS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to the attention of my colleagues, the outstanding work done by a great leader in my congressional district, Dr. Kwame Porter of the Christ United Methodist Church. Attached is a proclamation I issued Dr. Porter commending him for his work. Proclamation Whereas Dr. Kwame Porter was born in Mineral Springs, Arkansas as John Porter, due to the transformations brought about in his life today he is identified as Kwame which means, ``one born on a Saturday with a commitment to keeping his peoples' history.'' He is a family man married to June C. Porter, and God has blessed them with six children, John T., Joseph D., Julia M., Jessica R., Jorja A., and Jerrianne C. Porter; and Whereas Dr. Porter is a Pastor, Scholar, Prophet, and Community Leader, serving Christ United Methodist Church, Chicago, Illinois since the 1960's, he is a graduate of Kansas Community College, Kansas City, Kansas, Associate Arts Degree 1953, Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Bachelor of Arts Degree 1959, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Master of Divinity Degree 1962, Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, earning the Ph.D. Degree 1975, he is a prolific writer, the author of the Dating Habits of Young Black Americans ``And All Most Everybody Else Too'' and over eight other books and numerous articles; and Whereas Dr. Porter has always been in the vanguard in the struggle for Black Liberation, he was the first minister in Chicago to invite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Chicago and organized the first official Southern Christian Leadership Conference Chapter in Chicago in 1964, Dr. Porter is mentioned in Dempsey Travis' books on the history of Chicago, a Harvard University Study of the Civil Rights Movement, a University of Chicago Study on Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement, and the Oral History Project of Chicago's Civil Rights Movement by the Art Institute and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois; and Whereas Dr. Porter is a builder of men, women, and Institutions he has enabled thirty-one men and women enter the Christian Ministry from various denominational backgrounds, he has created several institutions, the Talented Tenth African American College Prep Project, The Successful Employment Preparation Project, The Winners Circle Business, The Englewood Cluster Umoja-Shalom Village, and the Englewood Alternative Policing Community Organizers cadre: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Congress of the United States wishes to acknowledge the accomplishments of Dr. Kwame Porter, and the Christ United Methodist Church, Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of Dr. Porter's thirty-three years in the Ministry, by entering these accomplishments into the Congressional Record and Archives of the One Hundred and Third Congress of the United States of America. ____________________