Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived on that shore with the best New England credentials. His great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the Isle of Wight only ten years after the Mayflower's famous landing at Plymouth Rock and fathered a male line of descendants of which every one was a clergyman or a lawyer except Bucky's father, who became a merchant importer. But his most
...National Council of Churches, having gone through a phase of innovation in picking a layman as president three years ago, last week swung back to an organization clergyman to run it for the next term. At its general assembly in Philadelphia, the 31-denomination council elected to the presidency Reuben Mueller, 66, presiding bishop of the 748,000-strong Evangelical United Brethren Church. Mueller re places (and pronounces his name like) Industrialist (Cummins Engine Co.) J. Irwin Miller, a Disciple of Christ...
Harlem's controversial clergyman-congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., has agreed to appear at Harvard early next year...
Ninety-five per cent of Negro church members belong to Negro denominations, the clergyman pointed out, and the rest worship for the most part in segregated congregations...
Pointing out that the civil rights movement was attempting to combat the economic as well as racial division of American society, the clergyman said that he hoped that Negroes who had learned to ignore class lines while demonstrating for racial equality would not settle for "easy integration" into the economic divisions of white society...