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Church officials recall Law's early support for the civil rights movement, support that began soon after his seminary training when he joined the Mississippi Human Relations Council in 1961. Law also took a strong pro-integration stand throughout the '60's as editor of the Natchez-Jackson diocesan newspaper in Mississippi...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Laying Down the Law | 2/2/1985 | See Source »

...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

They point to Law's early support for the civil rights movement, support that began soon after his seminary training when he joined the Mississippi Human Relations Council in 1961. Law also took a strong pro-integration stand during the '60s as editor of the Natchez-Jackson Diocesan newspaper in Mississippi...

Author: By Sonya C. Laurence, | Title: New Archbishop Will Face Minority Concerns | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...25th Anniversary report of Harvard's class of '53, he wrote that "the Diocesan newspaper managed to speak to issues which were largely ignored or distorted by much of the local press and other news media...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Named New Archbishop | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

Following eight years of training in Louisiana, Law became deeply involved in the civil rights movement, joining the Mississippi Human Relations Council, and edited the Natchez Jackson Diocesan newspaper from 1963-68, which kept him in close contact with major civil rights leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Named New Archbishop | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

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