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...handful of new and not-so-new leaders have emerged in the community since the riots, including Damon Lynch III, who?s a minister at the New Prospect Baptist Church. He has promised a campaign of civil disobedience, including sit-ins, until changes are made. Another leader is a lawyer named Ken Lawson, who had previously filed a suit against the city in a racial profiling case. Lynch and Lawson make a very effective team, and have had a lot of success galvanizing support...
...LEON SULLIVAN was a towering, 2-m exception. Though he grew up in West Virginia, died in Arizona and is best-known globally for his antiapartheid crusading and ties to Martin Luther King Jr., it was in 1960s Philadelphia that the proud but pragmatic pastor of Zion Baptist Church preached, perfected and first put into action his message that "black power without green power is no power." In North Philly, that meant pooling black parishioners' greenbacks to build grocery stores and job training centers after race riots left shops and hopes in ruins. When he became General Motors' first black...
...knees to invite Jesus Christ into his life. Then he rose and poured out all the alcohol in the house. Her family had never been very religious before. But Roni embraced her dad's conversion as her own. At age 17, she entered the tiny Piedmont Baptist College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she vowed to date only boys who wanted, like her, to be missionaries. As she wrote in the essay: "Seriously! Whenever I was asked out, even for ice cream, my first question would be, 'What do you want to do when you graduate...
DIED. THE REV. LEON SULLIVAN, 78, forceful civil rights leader and Baptist pastor credited with helping end apartheid in South Africa; of leukemia; in Scottsdale, Ariz. In 1977, after becoming the first black director on the General Motors board, he framed the Sullivan Principles, a code for U.S. companies operating in South Africa outlining how they could desegregate workplaces and promote fair treatment of black employees. At age 10, Sullivan was booted from a Charleston, W.Va., drugstore counter while drinking a soda, an incident that inspired him as an adult to organize boycotts of racist companies. In 1964, he founded...
...secretly recorded in the mid-1960s by a Ku Klux Klan buddy turned informant for the FBI, and the tapes helped convince jurors after just three hours of deliberation to convict Blanton, now 62, of the 1963 bombing that killed four young girls at the city's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...