Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive against the death penalty is gathering new momentum, gaining support from such religious groups as the Methodist Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ardent in dividual abolitionists have ranged from the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Jack R. Johnson, tough warden of Chicago's Cook County Jail, who says, "The death penalty isn't punishment - it's revenge...
...shall have to stop talking about 'God' for a while," says Baptist Harvey Cox, an ordained Protestant minister and an assistant professor at Andover Newton Theological School. One of the nation's most radical and respected young Christian thinkers, Cox, 35, tries to go well beyond existentialism and Bultmann-like "demythologizing" in order to program theology for what he believes is a new era in man's history: the age of urban secularization...
...hard to believe that people had been on this block only the night before by possemen. Negro youngsters coming a rally at the Jackson St. Baptist Church, Tuesday morning (March 16), told the story without anger, impassively. "They rode right through the people, beating 'em with clubs. I they rode up on that porch near the corner knocked a baby from a women's arms, though I didn't see it myself." But now the wns looked green, the porches clean and whitewashed. The sun was warm, and happy came from the church--it didn't seem if there could...
With evening, many of the people was home to supper. At 9 p.m. over packed Beulah Baptist Church, a blocks from Jackson St., where the Ralph Abernathy (SCLC) and For spoke. Finally De Lawd himself area. His speech was the same one that be given in Birmingham, on the Washington March, and in St. Augustina finally he spoke the words the people wanted to hear: "Tomorrow we march in the streets of Montgomery the thousands!" The people rose cheered, believing that tomorrow the would be the victors
...evening later in the week, James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, borrowed Lackey's bullhorn to quiet a restless mob outside the Jackson Street Baptist Church. When he bitterly criticized the police chief for calling in the posse, Lackey, who had been standing on the edge of the crowd, hesitated for a moment and then strode up to Forman...