Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps because of the site, the Sunday school killings in Birmingham brought forth in churches throughout the U.S. last week a great outpouring of wrath, sympathy-and hard-cash collections to help rebuild the bombed Baptist church. The reaction demonstrated what is best about religion's responsibilities toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess...
Lutherans are generally less engaged, and in the rearguard of the civil rights battle comes the big Southern Baptist Convention, many of whose 10.2 million members believe that segregation derives from...
...many signs show that preaching alone is disappointingly ineffective. Chief among them is the segregation that still thrives within the church de spite a striking increase in sermons on integration since the January conference in Chicago. Most Southern Protestant churches are rigidly segregated, and dozens of Southern Baptist and Methodist ministers have lost their pulpits for attempting even token integration. In theory, few Northern churches are closed to Negro membership, yet because of segregated housing, most parishes have at best only limited, "back-pew" integration. "Our Sunday schools are about ten years behind the public schools in integration," complains...
...chapter of current history, this week's cover story, written by Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, examines the state of Alabama and its Governor, George C. Wallace. For the background of his cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin chose the broken window of Birmingham's bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church as a particularly striking symbol of the depth and bitterness of the struggle...
Sunday morning, Sept. 15, was cool and overcast in Birmingham. Sunday school classes were just ending in the basement of the yellow brick 16th Street Baptist Church, the city's largest Negro church and the scene of several recent civil rights rallies. The morning's lesson was "The Love That Forgives," from the fifth chapter of Matthew.* Four girls ? Carole Robertson, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Denise McNair, 11 ? left the classroom to go to the bathroom...