Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward mending the nation's racial division: white ministers and priests are everywhere waking up to the need to help Negroes through secular action -fund drives, picket lines, finding jobs, breaking down housing segregation. But at the same time, the hatred that brought on the bombing showed what clergymen confess to be the worst in their role: their inability to stand in pulpits and to preach Acts 17:26 (God "hath made of one blood all the na tions of men") with sufficient eloquence to change hearts in great numbers...
Bishop Pike, like most Episcopal clergymen, insists that the coffin be closed during the church service and covered with a pall, which makes the most elaborate bronze and silver casket look the same as a plain pine...
Though Roman Catholics and Orthodox and Conservative Jews forbid cremation, many Protestant clergymen prefer it for its lack of ostentation (minimum cremation price is about $100); nevertheless, the national percentage of cremations to burials has stayed at less than 4% for the past ten years...
...marchers poured into the nation's capital-building to a grand total of well over 200,000. Of these, somewhere between 10% and 15% were white. There were, of course, the guitar-toting, goatee-growing beatniks; but for every one of these, there were probably two or three clergymen. There were Negroes in faded blue overalls; there were even more in stylish Ivy League suits. They swirled around the Monument's assembly ground, ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, passed around canteens filled with water (Washington had prohibited the sale of liquor for the day), tried to keep...
Back 50 Years? Graham's new crusade was warmly welcomed by most of the city's clergymen. "The effect on Los Angeles," said the Rev. Harold L. Fickett Jr. of the First Baptist Church in suburban Van Nuys, "will be so profound that only an eternity can measure it." But some questioned the crusade's value. Said the Rev. W. B. Key of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church: "I believe he's putting the church back 50 years...