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Brenda to Speak at Sacred Heart of Mary Book Club
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church Book/Movie Discussion Group will be hosting Brenda on Wednesday August 14, 2024 at 6:30 in the Parish Hall, located at 51841 Leach Road, Dowagiac, MI 49047.
Brenda will be speaking about her father's work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1960s.
Brenda Walker Beadenkopf is the author of A Quaker Behind the Dream, a two-volume biography of her father Charles Walker, a pacifist Quaker and expert in nonviolence. He worked with Dr. Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights Movement helping with nonviolence training and writing training materials.
A Quaker historian, she has researched the history of her Quaker church, Penn Friends, of the Quakers in the area such as James E. Bonine, and her own Quaker ancestors, the Walkers of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Chief Leopold Pokagon and his tribe of Potawatomi Indians built a log church here in 1838 and deeded the forty acres of land on which it stood to the Catholic Bishop of Detroit. Pokagon, who came to Silver Creek Township from his village outside of nearby Niles, was buried on this site in 1841. During the early 1840s the Holy Cross Fathers of Notre Dame in Indiana ministered to the Indians.The white frame church built in 1861 burned in 1886 and was immediately replaced by this present structure.
Books will be available, and refreshments will be served.