27 Facts About Chuck Fager

Chuck Fager is known for his work in both the Civil Rights Movement and in the Peace movement.

Chuck Fager's written works include religious and political essays, humor, adult fiction, and juvenile fiction, and he is best known for his 1974 book Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South, his in-depth history of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement, which led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

From 2002 to 2012 Fager served as Director of Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a peace project founded in 1969 near Fort Bragg, a major US Army base.

Charles E Fager was born in Kansas to a Roman Catholic family.

Chuck Fager grew up on various United States Air Force bases.

In high school, Chuck Fager left Catholicism, and for some years regarded himself as an atheist.

Chuck Fager attended Harvard Divinity School, mostly part-time, for four years, starting in 1968.

Chuck Fager moved to Atlanta, Georgia in late summer 1964, and soon became active in the Civil Rights Movement.

Chuck Fager then completed his service at the New York City Department of Social Services.

Chuck Fager later participated in several peaceful protests against the Vietnam War.

Chuck Fager taught workshops on nonviolent protest at anti-abortion conferences, as described in the book, "Wrath of Angels," by James Risen and Judy Thomas.

However, as the political and religious right essentially absorbed the anti-abortion movement in the early 1980s, Chuck Fager moved away from it, repudiated its increasingly rightwing and repressive character, and reconsidered his understanding of the embryology and metaphysics involved.

Chuck Fager first met Quakers in Selma, Alabama in late 1965 when students from the newly launched Friends World Institute came to help with voter registration.

Chuck Fager joined the Institute to serve his CO obligation and became acquainted with some Quakers who were involved in it.

Chuck Fager is currently a member of State College Meeting which is dually-affiliated with Baltimore Yearly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

In high school during the late 1950s, Chuck Fager got in trouble for writing and circulating a clandestine collection of satiric articles poking fun at teachers and school administrators.

Chuck Fager began work as a journalist in college, and in 1967, published his first book, White Reflections On Black Power, followed in 1969 by Uncertain Resurrection: The Poor Peoples Washington Campaign.

Chuck Fager later took up journalistic reporting, mainly for "alternative" papers in the Boston-Cambridge area, while still enrolled at Harvard Divinity School.

From Massachusetts Chuck Fager moved in 1975 to San Francisco, where he became a full-time freelance feature reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Chuck Fager stayed in this position until early 1981, when McCloskey began an unsuccessful run for the Senate.

In 1985 Chuck Fager began work for the US Postal Service in northern Virginia, first as a substitute Rural Mail Carrier, and then as a Mailhandler, until mid-1994.

Chuck Fager drew on this experience for his second mystery novel, Un-Friendly Persuasion, available from Kimo Press.

In 1979 Chuck Fager founded his own Kimo Press, which publishes Quaker literature, most of which was written by Chuck Fager himself.

Chuck Fager founded a journal entitled Quaker Theology in 1999.

In July 2013, Chuck Fager was arrested in a peaceful protest that was part of the "Moral Mondays" campaign in North Carolina.

From 1996 to 2002 Chuck Fager held the position of Clerk in the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts.

Chuck Fager was Clerk for the 2001 Quaker Peace Roundtable, and organizer of "A conference on The Military-Industrial Complex at 50", in January 2011.