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...deep?Deep South, U.S.A. There, in the 1930s, in the fields and shanties of the delta country, evolved an earthy, hard-driving style of music called "rhythm and blues"?played by Negroes for Negroes. Cured in misery, it was a lonesome, soul-sad music, full of cries and gospel wails, punctuated by a heavy, regular beat. With the migration to the industrial North after World War II, the beat was intensified with electric guitars, bass and drums, and the great blues merchants, like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry, made their first recordings...
Billy Graham has pointedly steered clear of civil rights demonstrations. But last week, he started the first phase of a major crusade to see whether his gospel message-that men must love God before they can love one another-can ease some of the racial tension in the South. "As a Southerner," says Baptist Billy, "I may have a little more influence than a man with a New England accent...
Under the Cross. In private conversations with Southern civic leaders after his sermons, Billy expects to "say plenty" about the need for racial understanding in the South. Onstage, however, he intends to heal, not harangue, offer the message of the Gospel on race in beyond-the-battle terms. "I believe that under the shadow of the cross of Christ is the place of true brotherhood...
...memory of his sermon. In answer, Billy argues that a true conversion to Christ inevitably affects man's racial attitude. Moreover, he believes that his kind of preaching may have a special value for the South, where both white and Negro share a common tradition of reverence for Gospel-centered Christianity. And despite "huge psychological barriers," Billy believes that the South may well overcome its racial difficulties faster than the North. "We're building for future generations," he says. "Younger people look at things differently...
Since then, said Hare, "we have been subjected to something fantastic and terroristic. Many self-anointed saints took it upon themselves to come here to help us solve our problems. Many of the ministers of the Gospel who came here would do well to stack their picket signs and get back in the pulpit." Integration, he said, "will solve no social problems; it will probably create them. It is just one of those things we have got to live through. It may be pretty rough living." But rough as it had been, he sighed, Selma's whites had "shown...