Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee read from Black Boy, Richard Wright's autobiographical account of the plight of the slum Negro.
The charges are based on Davis' civil rights record. While almost every other minister and priest in Washington was encouraging the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, Davis denounced it because "our way of life is threatened" by demonstrations that challenge rule by law. After Unitarian Minister James Reeb...
Shallow Gesture. In response to criticism, Davis has issued a series of open letters to friends and parishioners, arguing that his policies and actions have been much misunderstood. In one, he smoothly explained why he had asked a young Negro girl to wait a while before joining. At the time...
National City was scheduled for debate at the Disciples' annual convention; had the church accepted her then, he explained, it would have seemed "an artificial, shallow gesture." Davis also points out that National City for years has operated an integrated summer-vacation Bible school for neighborhood children, and last...
Davis concedes that his church may not have done enough to encourage Negroes to join, and admits that National City should probably incorporate the poverty-stricken Twelfth Street Church. But he explains that church integration is fraught with subtle dangers, and must be done on a carefully controlled basis. "When...