Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Carter said that he did not impose the maximum penalty because Luther had "acted to prevent violence...
...total of 90 Alabama Negroes were indicted on Feb. 21, for illegally boycotting the privately-owned bus company in Montgomery. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the first of the Negroes to come to trial, was convicted on the charge yesterday by Circuit Judge Eugene W. Carter. He was fined $500, plus $500 court costs. The defense counsel announced that the decision would be appealed...
...bond after fingerprinting-proceeded from the jailhouse to church for the next move. About 3,000 Negroes gathered in Montgomery's red brick First Baptist (Negro) Church to protest the arrests, to kneel beneath stained glass windows and peeling yellow walls and sing "Hallelujah." Said the Rev. Martin Luther King, 27: "This is not a tension between the Negro and whites. This is only a conflict between justice and injustice. We are not just trying to improve Negro Montgomery. We are trying to improve the whole of Montgomery . . . If we are arrested every day; if we are exploited every...
...Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature was not in session.) The governors recommended to their state legislatures "that there be adopted a resolution of interposition, or protest in appropriate language, against the encroachment of the central government upon the sovereignty of the several states...
...Your Nov. 28 coverage of "Luther in English" is much appreciated. However, there were two important omissions: the St. Louis Concordia Publishing House is an arm of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, associate professor of historical theology in the federated theological faculty of the University of Chicago, is general editor for the volumes being published by Concordia...