Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an experience, not an excitement. It started on the after noon of Sunday, March 21, with some 3,400 marchers led by two Nobel Peace prizewinners-the Rev. Martin Luther King and Ralph Bunche, now U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In the procession, whites and Negroes, clergymen and beatniks, old and young, walked side by side. There was a blind man from Atlanta on the arm of his 64-year-old mother. There was a one-legged man from Michigan swinging along on crutches (from the sidelines, white hecklers kept calling out in parade cadence: "Left, left...
...some of the ministers seemed to have left their good common sense back home with their toothbrushes. Perhaps it was time, as the Roman Catholic liberal weekly Ave Maria suggested, for many of those religious leaders "to consider and determine what means of witness and protest are appropriate to clergymen and what means are not." Ave Maria questioned whether "the appropriate moral response of clergymen" is "always the same as the appropriate moral response of civil rights leaders...
...State legislature yesterday passed a resolution condemning the "inebriation and immorality" of the clergymen on the march...
...According to the Associated Press, the city of Montgomery itself was filling up rapidly with hundreds from all over the nation who came for today's huge procession to the Alabama State Capitol. White ministers, college students and Northern housewives joined Negro clergymen and Southern Negro laborers for the event...
...About 35 clergymen began a vigil in front of the Capitol at 10 p.m. Tuesday to protest the beatings of that day. They asked if they could give a prayer on the Capitol steps, but a tight ring of state troopers prevented any movement toward the steps...