The manifesto that came out of Unitarian pulpits.
The AHA's own history dates the movement to a fellowship of Unitarian professors and students at Chicago in 1927, and records that two Unitarian ministers reorganised it into the AHA in 1941.
This is the descent that puts this page under Unitarian Universalism in the tree, and it is drawn on the movement's own testimony rather than on outside genealogy. The American Humanist Association's published history begins in 1927 with Unitarian professors and students at the University of Chicago who had moved away from theism, organising the Humanist Fellowship and publishing The New Humanist as a path forward for the Unitarian movement. It records that the AHA was formed in 1941 when Curtis W. Reese and John H. Dietrich, both well-known Unitarian ministers, reorganised the Humanist Press Association in Chicago. Around the same period Charles Francis Potter, formerly Baptist and then Unitarian, founded the First Humanist Society of New York and described humanism as a new faith for a new age. The 1933 Manifesto's signatory list is thick with Unitarian ministers for the same reason.
The American Humanist Association (AHA) was formed in 1941, when Curtis W. Reese and John H. Dietrich, two well-known Unitarian ministers and humanists, reorganized the Humanist Press Association in Chicago.
The American Humanist Association, Our HistoryCited here as the evidence for this page's descent from Unitarianism: the line says it about itself.
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