Charles H. King Jr. lead seminars about race in America and participated in the Civil Rights movement. He grew up in Schuylkill County.
“Fire in My Bones” – Pottsville native and Civil Rights leader Charles H. King’s memoir
A powerful editorial from Pottsville’s black community | 1940
In the summer of 1940, a new minister at Pottsville's Bethel AME Church sought to reach out to the Coal Region's white community for economic cooperation.