Howard Schomer

Howard Schomer (June 9, 1915 – June 28, 2001) was a United Nations Commission on Human Rights aide, Civil Rights activist, scholar, drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and editor-at-large for Christian Century.^[1] He received a B.S. from Harvard College in 1937; a D.D. from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1954, and was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1941. He was assigned to Civilian Public Service for refusing his ministerial exemption from the draft in World War II as a conscientious objector.^[2] Schomer was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and remained a Civil Rights activist for his entire life.

He served as the Chicago Theological Seminary president from (1959–1966).

References

• Howard Schomer at the New York Times^[3]
• The Howard Schomer papers at the Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories^[4]