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Earnest John G. Gill looked like just the man to take care of the Unitarian Church in the quiet, well-kept town of Alton, 111. (pop. 32,000), on the bluffs of the Mississippi River. At Harvard, John Gill had written his Ph.D. thesis on Elijah Parish Lovejoy, the fiery Abolitionist minister and editor who was beaten to death by an Alton...
...years John Gill and Alton got along, but beneath the tranquil surface, trouble threatened. Like many another small town in southern Illinois, Alton ignores a state law, on the books since the 1880s, and segregates its Negro children in public schools below high-school level...
...went well until last year, when Unitarian Gill began to see local conditions in terms of black & white. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was fighting segregation in Alton's schools, and Gill was openly in the anti-segregation fight. One day 175 Negro boys & girls tried to register at five grade schools and two junior high schools. Gill organized his fellow ministers to supervise the demonstration and prevent trouble. When crosses in the Ku Klux Klan tradition were burned on the riverfront to intimidate the Negroes, Gill's pulpit denunciation, and a newspaper statement...
...University yesterday released a four-point plan dealing with students who enlist in the Armed Forces before completing their regular course of study here. The announcement, touching on course credit, tuition, and board and lodging charges was released by Dean Gill after a four-hour Administrative Board meeting in University Hall yesterday afternoon...
...solidest and best of the year's firsts was The Encounter, Crawford Power's portrayal of a parish priest's struggle with pride. Another was The Trouble of One House, in which Brendan Gill made a civilized, gently ironic comment on the trouble that can blow up in the wake of unselfish love...