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...Trigger. Trigger of defeat was the amendment by Manhattan Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal funds to school districts until they have complied with the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. The amendment brought roars of anger from Southern Democrats. Shouted Louisiana Democrat George Long: "Louisiana is not going to integrate. I do not care what kind of a law you pass here." It also brought some reasoned statesmanship. Chicago Democrat William L. Dawson, like Powell a Negro, took his own stand against the amendment. Said he sadly: "I would not deny to the children in all states...
...Unitarian Second (Old North) Church. Founded in 1649, used by Silversmith Paul Revere for his famed "one if by land, two if by sea" signal, stripped for firewood by the British troops in 1776, it was the only church Ralph Waldo Emerson ever served as pastor. The Rev. Clayton Brooks Hale, its 20th, was proud to be called there in 1950. But last week New Hampshire-born, 36-year-old Unitarian Hale, a graduate of Tufts College and Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, sorrowfully found his congregation riven by a controversy for which many Northerners have been self-righteously reproaching...
Minnesota: John C. Hiebert of Adams and Mountain Lake; Missouri: Donald C. Cannon of Kirkland and Independence; Charles L. Edson of Dunster and University City; and Lewis M. Schneider of Winthrop and Clayton; New Hampshire: Robert A. LIoyd of Kirkland and Exeter...
...opening of the chapel for the prayers of intercession corresponds with the National Deliverance Day of Prayer promoted by Adam Clayton Powell, a Democratic Representative from New York City. Several million people throughout the nation are expected to join in the Deliverance Day services...
...brainstorm of New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, this amendment would withhold federal funds from any school district that refused to obey the Supreme Court decision prohibiting segregation in public schools. Powell argues that no federal money should be spent on segregated school programs because such construction would invite Southern districts to circumvent the law. If federal funds are used to build segregated schools now, Powell suggests, these structures will be illogically situated when desegregation arrives...