Word: fauntroy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having a friend in the White House does not spare Davis from criticism by other clergymen. Martin Luther King's Washington spokesman, Baptist Minister Walter E. Fauntroy, says: "Davis is the most reactionary minister we have." The Disciples' civil rights leader, the Rev. Barton Hunter of Indianapolis, considers Davis "a source of very great embarrassment to the Brotherhood...
...system labors under the serious handicaps of a limited budget imposed by a parsimonious Congress and dutiful district commissioners. Many of the buildings are rundown and ratinfested; one-third of the teachers are "temporaries." Critics also find considerable fault with Hansen's rule. The Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, an aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King, protests that the four-track system "hardens class lines" and unfairly labels pupils on the basis of tests that "do not measure intelligence but the child's proficiency with middle-class symbols...