A veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Vincent G. Harding has spent over 40 years as a human rights activist. Black students in the South who mobilized for Freedom Summer in 1964 turned to Harding and his late wife Rosemarie for advice.

In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. relied on a text drafted by Vincent Harding for his famous speech at Riverside Church in New York City where King spoke of the need to “go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.”

Dr. Harding is an emeritus professor at the Iliff School of Theology Colorado, and chair of the of Veterans of Hope project in Denver.