Word: marmion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pocketbook Rebellion. Elsewhere, less obviously inflammatory grants have provoked similar reactions. A 1968 grant to the Black Unity League in Louisville ran into resistance after three leaders of the group were charged with conspiracy to blow up oil storage tanks during a riot. Louisville Bishop C. Gresham Marmion asked that the grant be deferred until the three had been tried, but Leon Modeste, the black layman who directs the Special Program, made the grant on schedule. In North Carolina, a $30,000 grant to the Malcolm X Liberation University created a furor when the local bishop was denied a voice...