Rev. Dr. Marvin L. Morgan, Interim Pastor, Church of the Red Rocks in Sedona, AZ, mimicked his late father, Dock Washington Morgan, a sharecropper in NC, as he delivered the sermon on the first Sunday of Black History Month. Marvin, while sharing the story of the loss (or rather the theft) of the "Old Morgan Farm" in Lincoln County, AL, decided to honor his late father, who always wore bib overalls with a white shirt and a tie on Sundays.

The farm is now owned by the descendants of a white lawyer who represented Marvin's grandfather, George Morgan, in a court case. Only 30 days following sentencing, George Morgan was granted a full pardon by Alabama Governor, William Brandon, in 1925.

Pastor Morgan questions how a court sentence, obtained by deception and lies and pardoned after only 30 days, could have costed his grandfather one of the largest Black-owned farms in the Lincoln County area. He said he shared that story because it represents, so very clearly, the nature of the Black experience in the US. He was inspired and humbled when the sermon was met with resounding applause by the congregation.