As noted, Janice Mirikitani’s first job at Glide, in 1964, was transcribing taped recordings made by victims of police brutality. She recalls: “[F]rom the first

The Glide Urban Center was part of a national movement among the nation’s religious organizations to focus on social justice. “Social concerns dominated the country’s

An extraordinary extent of the Glide Urban Center’s early work was focused on issues related to queer communities, as Dr. Susan Stryker, LGBTQ historian, summarizes:

Janice Mirikitani joined the Glide staff in 1964 when she responded to an advertisement for a temporary typing job.169 She was an atheist and wary

Rev. Cecil Williams describes the Tenderloin when he first arrived at Glide in 1964: People called the Tenderloin District in San Francisco “the last circle

In 1968, during his retirement ceremony, Bishop Tippett described Glide under the direction of Tippett, Durham, McIlvenna, and the Reverend A. Cecil Williams, as “the

Bishop Donald Tippett was responsible for another watershed moment for the Glide Foundation and Glide Memorial Church. As the Glide Evangelistic Training School grew over

Glide Evangelistic Training School Bishop Donald Tippett was appointed to the Board of Trustees in late 1949. Pastor John H. Kenney was hired in February

Meeting minutes from this period paint a picture of how difficult it was to operate a downtown church. Lizzie Glide betted on the downtown location

Glide Memorial Church’s first congregation was transferred from Fitzgerald Memorial Church (960 Bush Street), about six blocks from Glide.78 Fitzgerald Church closed as soon as