CHAMPION FOR FIVE

Champion for Five offers the comprehensive capabilities and deep industry knowledge necessary to help you solve any equity, inclusion and diversity issues of your organization. Let's do the good work together to make your organization, your space, and the world, a better place... Champion Miller, born a slave, came to Monmouth, Illinois, after purchasing his freedom in Barren County Kentucky, in search of his brother. His brother, Richard Murphy, had come to the West Central area with his master. Champion created a life in Monmouth that many at that time could only dream of. He not only learned to read and write with the help of a local family (who was interwoven into the Monmouth College community) but he became so respected, that people within the community helped him raise enough money to go back to purchase his wife and son out of slavery. He returned to Monmouth with his wife and son, and became one of the founding members of the 4th Presbyterian Church, which was the first..