Williams, Cecil – You The People: Celebrating With Glide's Cecil Williams – Used LP

Still sealed.  Sleeve has some wear. (Not actual copy in photos)  

A mix of spoken word and music, side one focusing on the latter, side two on the former.  I'm guessing this album is from the early 1970s. 

Cecil Williams: 1929 - 2024

Moved to SF in the early 1960s.  Founded Glide Memorial Church.

Helped create the Council on Religion and Homosexuality in 1964!

Responsible for pulling Glide to the left, putting the church at the forefront of the gay, anti-war, and civil rights movements. Drawing on his experiences in the civil rights movement, Williams was one of the first African-Americans to become involved in the gay rights movement. In 1964, he gave a speech at the Society for Individual Rights in San Francisco, which was more outspoken than the contemporary Mattachine Society. Based on the contemporary campaign for African-American voting rights, he suggested that gays should use their votes to gain political power and effect change. In his advice for gay movement to create tensions, he echoed Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail:

I think that we must not be afraid of controversy or tension. We in the civil rights movement have learned how to rock the boat, how to disturb complacent middle-class people, how to root out complacency. It is good to have strong disagreement because from it comes movement and reaction. Controversy is the need; it stimulates communication and the exchange of ideas. Rejection once in awhile is a good thing too. It forces one to find oneself . . . Tension leads to resolution, to movement; at least, it lets people know that a living, fulfilling movement is on its way.

A1 Meridian West Jazz Group Bass – Nat Johnson (4) Flute – Julie Iger Guitar – Larry Vogt Percussion – Allen Pimental Piano – Jean Hoffman (6) Saxophone – John Waters (8)

A2 God's Goin' To Trouble The Water

A3 A Time For Coming Together Written-By – Lloyd K. Wake

A4 A Time For Crying Out Written-By – Edward L. Peet

A5 The Spirit's Moving To Set Us Free

A6 I Got Life Written-By – Edward L. Peet

A7 Quotations From Chairman Jesus Written-By – Janice M. Miller

A8 Little David Play On Your Harp

B1 Telling It Like It Is Voice – The Reverend A. Cecil Williams

B2 Let's Rejoice Performer – The Glide Ensemble