Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local black organizations and escorted through schools, economic projects and job training centers, as well as into homes and bars at night for "rap" sessions that lasted well into the morning. In Chicago, we listened to Jesse Jackson, heir-apparent to leadership in Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Cleveland's Hough ghetto, the group stayed with families in ghetto apartments. In San Francisco, a motel manager emptied enough rooms of prostitutes to crowd the group in-and got himself beaten up by their pimps in return. The pimps who stayed were anxious to talk...
While pacificism seemed outdated in London, the idea of reparations for past injustices was very much in style. Despite a few questions about who would control the money, the conference supported the proposal that churches compensate those who had been "exploited" by a capitalistic system. The Christian churches, the delegates reported, had "not only tolerated but also profited from" the system. Of all the meeting's decisions, this was perhaps the one of greatest practical concern to American clergymen. Ever since he disrupted a Sunday service at Manhattan's Riverside Church with his demand for $500 million...
...month, but pointedly took issue with his manifesto's threat of violence to obtain compensation from the churches. Even before the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church rejected the demands, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines called Forman's manifesto "calculatedly revolutionary, Marxist, inflammatory, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian." The Forman plan, added the General Board of the Disciples of Christ, implies "an ideology we cannot accept and a methodology we cannot approve." Forman also got a polite but unequivocal rebuff from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Jewish organizations opposed the reparations plan but favored "massive...
Died. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, 67, an inspirational leader of the 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn't make sense," Douglass strove for a quarter-century to unite factionalized Protestantism. His most visible success came in 1957, with the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reform Church...
...become the conscience of his nation when he throws over his desk for a while, and, as a citizen, engages in politics." As a campaigner for Willy Brandt, as a critic of Willy Brandt for allowing the Social Democrat Party to join in the Great Coalition with the Christian Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past, Grass is acting as citizen and not as writer. He has not, however, thrown over his writing desk. The same man who wrote about the "bourgeois smug" and the Onion Cellar...