Jonathan K. Stubbs, son of the late Deacon Calvin K. Stubbs and the late Edith H. Stubbs of Gloucester, will speak at Union Zion Baptist Church, Ware Neck, at 3 p.m. Sunday. His topic will be “Fear vs. Love: The Color Line and Early American Law.”
Stubbs was graduated from public schools in Gloucester, and Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Since 1984, Stubbs has served as an associate minister at Bethel Baptist Church, Sassafras.
Stubbs earned law degrees from New College, Oxford University, England, Yale Law School, and Harvard Law School. He is a Professor of Law at the University of Richmond.
Stubbs is a human rights scholar who has documented the work of American human rights lawyers Oliver W. Hill, Esq. and Hon. Henry L. Marsh, III. He edited “The Big Bang, Brown v. Board of Education and Beyond: The autobiography of Oliver W. Hill, Sr.” and co-edited (with professor Danielle Wingfield) “The Memoirs of Henr...