Miami Shores Community Church is a landmark. For decades, the bells of the oldest Christian meeting place in the village provided a musical soundtrack. The golden-hued bell tower was lit up, a beacon visible from far away.
And it’s historic. In 1949, its white minister, Donald Douds, invited a Black colleague, the Rev. Edward T. Graham, to preach at the church for “Brotherhood Week.”
That was the Jim Crow era. Discrimination and hate were the law of the land. Two crosses were set ablaze at the church, and Douds was threatened…