Word: greensburg
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Violence, Rap Brown observed, "is as American as cherry pie." History that most whites would rather forget supports him. Quite aside from the Ku Klux Klan's brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine...
Nonetheless, the churches' fair-employment policy has already produced some small but tangible results. Since the Roman Catholic diocese of Greensburg, Pa., introduced fair-hiring clauses into its contracts, the area's Negro groups have issued no complaints against city builders. Most Christian leaders are convinced that the churches' financial power, which contributed $900 million worth of new building to the U.S. economy last year, is a force that can and must be used to further social equality. "Either you use your assets to further integration or to impede integration," says Eugene Callahan, executive director...
...Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...
...Crying All Day." Philomena's desanctification is causing widespread consternation this week-Catholic girls found themselves greeted with "Hello, No-name." "I've been crying all day," said Sister Marie Helene of Mother Seton Sisters of Charity in Greensburg, Pa., who has devoted 45 years to St. Philomena's cause, has written a book about her (St. Philomena, Powerful with God), and raised $10,000 to build a shrine to Philomena on the campus of Greensburg's Seton Hill College...