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George Houser was born on 2 June, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is an Acivist for African-American civil rights and African independence (1916–2015). Discover George Houser's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 99 years old?

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Occupation Methodist minister, activist
Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 2 June, 1916
Birthday 2 June
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Date of death 19 August, 2015
Died Place Santa Rosa, California, United States
Nationality United States

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1916

George Mills Houser (June 2, 1916 – August 19, 2015) was an American Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and activist for the independence of African nations.

George Houser was born in 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents who were Methodist missionaries, and as a child, he spent several years with them in the Far East, largely in the Philippines.

After studying at what is now the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, the young Houser completed his undergraduate work at the University of Denver.

He then attended Union Theological Seminary, where he served as chairman of the school's social action commission.

1939

Farmer, Bayard Rustin and Houser were all influenced at this time by Krishnalal Shridharani's Columbia University doctoral thesis published in 1939 as War Without Violence.

Shridharani was secretary to Gandhi and codified Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's organizing techniques and ideas on nonviolent civil disobedience.

They decided to apply the same methods in their work for civil rights.

Houser's codification of Shridharani's rules enabled CORE to engage in nonviolent actions.

1940

He served on the staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (1940s–1950s).

Houser, along with David Dellinger, was among 20 Union students who announced publicly that they would defy the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.

In November 1940 Houser was arrested for refusing to be drafted.

He served a year in jail.

After college, Houser was ordained as a Methodist minister.

He soon became involved in movements for social justice and civil rights.

Houser joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the 1940s and worked with it until the 1950s.

It sponsored education and activities related to civil rights for African Americans and the end of segregation.

1942

With James Farmer and Bernice Fisher, he co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 in Chicago.

With Bayard Rustin, another FOR staffer, Houser co-led the Journey of Reconciliation, a form of nonviolent direct action, a two-week interracial bus journey challenging segregation.

In 1942, with fellow staffer James Farmer, activist Bernice Fisher and James Robinson, Houser co-founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago.

He served as its first executive secretary.

1946

In 1946 Houser, along with Dave Dellinger, Igal Roodenko, Lew Hill, and others, helped found the radical pacifist Committee for Nonviolent Revolution.

1947

In 1947, after the US Supreme Court's finding (in Morgan v. Commonwealth) that segregation in interstate travel was unconstitutional, Houser helped organize the Journey of Reconciliation.

This was a plan to send eight white and eight black men on a journey through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky to test the ruling.

The protest brought a great deal of press attention to CORE and to the issue of segregation in interstate travel.

1948

In February 1948 George Houser received the Thomas Jefferson Award for his work to bring an end to segregation on interstate buses and in their facilities.

In 1948, Houser was the secretary of the Resist Conscription Committee.

He described the RCC as a temporary group of pacifists, whose purpose was to gather names of people who were willing to resist conscription.

The group circulated a statement which read, in part:

Conscription fails to prevent war, foments further warlike preparation by our opponents, and denies fundamental freedoms of the individual necessary to democracy.

This violates our deepest convictions that no person should be forcibly coerced into adopting a military way of life.

We believe human beings are fit for something better, something nobler than slavery and training in the mass extermination of their fellows.

1949

In 1949, Houser moved to Skyview Acres, an intentional community in Pomona, New York.

1950

Houser left the FOR in the 1950s, when he turned his attention to African liberation struggles.

Nations were seeking independence from colonial rulers.

Houser led the American Committee on Africa for many years, spending decades on the continent to promote freedom from colonial rule and segregation.

1952

In 1952 he helped found "Americans for South African Resistance" (AFSAR) to organize support in the U.S. for the ANC-led Defiance Campaign against apartheid in South Africa.

1961

It was a model for the 1961 Freedom Rides that CORE and the Nashville Student Movement later organized through the Deep South.

2010

In 2010, he received the Republic of South Africa’s Oliver R. Tambo Award.

In the same year he moved to California, where he lived until his death.

2015

Houser died on August 19, 2015, at the age of 99 in Santa Rosa, California.