Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States, a two-volume survey of the U.S. from 1783 to 1917, melts detectably into this volume. There are recognizable other debts to By Land and by Sea, a 1953 collection of essays, to Admiral of the Ocean Sea, his definitive and immensely readable life of Columbus published in 1942, and to his exemplary 15-volume History of U.S. Naval Operations in World...
...earth secular issue may well prove the ultimate stumbling block for the diffident, well-organized Methodists, who are three times more numerous than any other church involved in the consultation, and who seem more interested in cementing ties of friendship within world Methodism. Bishop F. Gerald Ensley of Columbus, Ohio, warned that his church "already has its hands full" negotiating its own merger with the Evangelical United Brethren...
King arrived in the Hub yesterday morning to lead the march on Boston, which is expected to draw between 30,000 and 50,000 demonstrators. The marchers will leave the Carter Playground, Camden St. and Columbus Ave. in Roxbury, at 9:30 a.m. and walk to the Boston Common, where a mass rally is scheduled...
Starting from Carter Playground, at the corner of Columbus Ave. and Camden St. in Roxbury, the march will pass through Boston, stopping at schools and slums along the way. On the Common, King will speak on the "focal points of the Freedom Struggle in Boston": slum housing, municipal code enforcement, anti-poverty programs, and education. Virgil Wood, president of the Massachusetts branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said yesterday that King would probably comment on the Boston School Committee...
...reign of terror against Negroes. They tarred and feathered men and women-white and black-whom they suspected of illicit sexual relations, and lynched, mutilated or lashed hundreds of others. They tortured Jewish shopkeepers, whom they accused of massive international financial conspiracies; they published a spurious Knights of Columbus "oath" that portrayed Roman Catholics as villainous conspirators against the U.S. Their bedsheets became robes emblazoned with ornate embroidery, and they invented a whole new thesaurus of Klanonyms. There were the Kleagle and the Klabee, the Kladd and the Klaliff, the Klectoken and the Klexter, the Klig-rapp and the Klokan...