Listen to Stateside's conversation with Bishop Thomas Gumbleton.
1968 was a very tense and pivotal year in Detroit's history. The city was putting itself back together again after the riots in July of '67.
That was the year 38-year-old priest Thomas Gumbleton became a Catholic bishop, and set about working to unite black and white parishes in the Detroit Archdiocese.
Today, after a lifetime of fighting for peace, justice and equality, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton is 85. And his life is now a film. American Prophet written, produced and directed by his parishioner Jasmine Rivera.