{"id":3476,"date":"2012-04-26T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/20th-anniversary-of-la-riots-puts-rev-murray-in-media-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:29:07","slug":"20th-anniversary-of-la-riots-puts-rev-murray-in-media-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/20th-anniversary-of-la-riots-puts-rev-murray-in-media-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"20th anniversary of LA riots puts Rev. Murray in media spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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20th anniversary of LA riots puts Rev. Murray in media spotlight<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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Rev. Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray has appeared in national and local news stories regarding the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles civil unrest.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago this month, over a thousand fires burned in the heart of Los Angeles. The acquittal of police officers charged in the Rodney King brutality trial had sparked one of the most destructive episodes of urban violence in U.S. history. In the weeks leading up to the verdict, Dr. Murray used his connections with civic, religious and business leaders to lay the groundwork for strategies to quell the rage he knew an acquittal might unleash. When his worst fears were realized, he stepped into the fray to conciliate between rioters and police, and in the aftermath of the riots he worked ceaselessly to address the social and economic ills that had spawned the unrest.<\/p>\n

After retiring from his post as pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME), Rev. Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray was named a senior fellow of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. He was also appointed as the John R. Tansey Chair of Christian Ethics in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California.\n<\/p>\n