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...troubling Boston religious leaders interested in unity, but they have been reluctant to bring the split into the open. Richard Cardinal Cushing has supported the Boston School Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro Episcopalian minister. Many Protestant clergymen gave their churches for use as freedom schools...
...participants were Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation; Deputy Police Commissioner John Howland, Traveler columnist Blake Ehrlich, Herald editorial writer Anson Smith; Elmer Foster, Mayor Collins' Citizens' Relations director; and Richard Banks, vice-president of the Boston NAACP and chairman of the Citizens' Committee on Police Practices...
...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
...beseech thee to protect with thy sustaining presence those who venture to explore the heavens." At civic ceremonies, invocations are somewhat shorter and simpler than in the past-and may even on occasion live up to the standards of frankness set by the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Episcopal Bishop of Boston, who suggests that his priests say: "God forgive the graft that went into this building." Despite the Supreme Court decision, many schools opened this fall with some form of prayer. In San Francisco, the midmorning snack for kindergarten, first-and second-grade children is invariably preceded...
Frontier College operates on a tiny budget: $70,000 this year, most from private gifts, part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders...