US EditionCivil rights veteran John Perkins, who preached racial reconciliation, dead at 95
John Perkins advanced racial reconciliation and community aid through his 3 Rs: relocation, redistribution, and reconciliation, impacting millions, his foundation said.
- On Friday, March 13, 2026, John M. Perkins, pioneering pastor and civil‑rights leader, died at home under hospice care in Mississippi, his family announced on social media.
- As a civil‑rights minister and author, John M. Perkins promoted the 3 Rs—relocation, redistribution, reconciliation—codified in his 1976 memoir and founded the Christian Community Development Agency in 1989.
- During the 1960s, Perkins faced violent retaliation for activism, organizing voter drives and a 1965 boycott that led to arrests and police brutality by local and state police officers.
- His daughter V. Elizabeth Perkins posted, 'My heart is broken, yet full of gratitude for the gift of being his daughter' and asked supporters to donate to the John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation instead of flowers.
- Perkins leaves a wide institutional legacy with 17 books, the Spencer Perkins Center, weekly Zoom Bible studies with over 200 participants, and internment scheduled for later this month at Oak Ridge Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, New Hebron.
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John M. Perkins, a Mississippi-born pastor and civil rights activist who spent decades advocating for racial reconciliation through faith-based community development, has died at 95, his daughter, Elizabeth, announced on Instagram.
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Dr. John M. Perkins, a civil-rights and religious leader who has contributed to his Jackson, Mississippi, community for decades, died on Friday, March 13, 2026, at age 96. The post Person of the Day | John M. Perkins, Mississippi Civil-Rights Leader and Christian Reconciliation Pioneer, Dies appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
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roysreport.comJohn Perkins, civil rights leader, influential Bible teacher, dies at 95
'John Perkins is probably one of the true unsung heroes in America — not in Black America, not in the church community, but in America,' said the Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner, co-founder of the Skinner Leadership Institute.
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Mississippi civil rights leader John Perkins dies at 95. What we know
Civil rights leader John Perkins, 95, died March 13, surrounded by family. He was known for racial reconciliation and justice. When is his funeral?
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