Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same pattern has emerged in 1969. At the recent N.C.A.A. championships in Nashville, Tenn., an unknown 440-yd. runner named Curtis Mills streaked across the tape in 44.7 sec., .1 sec. under the two-year-old world mark. The first black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
There were gripes, too, some of them scrawled angrily on the pledge cards mailed out by hopeful fund raisers. Many postage-paid envelopes came back containing news pictures of the gun-toting black students at Cornell-and no checks. The kind of alumni ire once generated by losing football teams is now created by winning rioters. One grad wrote anonymously in answer to a plea from Temple: "Let the sit-ins pay; they run things." This was doubly wounding to Temple, where a one-day sit-in had won nothing...
...search for "relevance" often takes the form of innovation within accepted ecclesiastical norms. When Shannon Meagher and Henry A. Foley planned their Roman Catholic wedding in Milwaukee, they altered the traditional ceremony to give it an interracial, ecumenical character "for our friends who were black, white, Jew, Catholic, Protestant, poor, middle class and rich...
...Black theology is the only genuine manifestation of Christianity in America today. White theology is basically racist and nonChristian. If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It is the enemy of Christ...
...every Negro Christian would agree with this provocative, militant conclusion of Union Theological Seminary's James H. Cone. Today, however, the black churches of the U.S.- which have frequently been accused of excessive caution on civil rights - are rapidly catching up with the secular advocates of Black Power who have created such turmoil in the universities and urban ghettos...