Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of the rolling rifle volleys and guttural drums that accompanied the President's obsequies, Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta was counterpointed by resonant spirituals and the elegiac toll of mourning bells. The difference was essentially that between black and white, Baptist and Catholic, soul and suzerainty. There were the predictable and publicized responses-the Academy Awards were postponed so that Negro entertainers could attend the funeral; baseball's major leagues likewise delayed their opening day-and a degree of political grandstanding. But the tributes rendered last week to King nonetheless added...
...streets of the Peach State's capital in temperatures that reached 82° F. By 10:30 a.m., the nominal starting time, more than 35,000 Negroes and whites from as far away as Los Angeles and Boston had packed the side streets around the red brick Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue, where King had served as co-pastor with his father for eight years...
...abstemious and devout Baptist, Watson left an executive post with the Lone Star Steel Co. in Dallas three years ago to work full time for the President. Earlier, in 1964, he had helped direct arrangements at the Democratic Convention. He is remembered for his dour directive to office girls, telling them not to spend their lunch hours basking on the Atlantic City boardwalk and not to wear diaphanous blouses...
...millions of white Americans, the televised services for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church marked their first opportunity to observe the soul and spirit of the black man's Christian faith. Compared with the austere and stately worship at most mainstream Protestant or Roman Catholic churches, the funeral service was almost unbearably emotional. The simple, old-fashioned hymns, sung with tearful intensity by the church choir, were pure "soul"; a succession of black-robed speakers praised the memory of Dr. King in fustian oratory rich with Biblical imagery. In effect...
...counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular...