Word: meridian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pelham, N.Y., wig manufacturer, was a Cornell graduate in 1961, a social worker on New York's Lower East Side before joining the Congress of Racial Equality two years ago. Last January, Schwerner and his wife Rita, 22, went South, opened a Negro community center in Meridian, Miss. It included a 10,000-book library donated by Northern students. Rita taught reading and citizenship, instructed Negro women in how to work sewing machines, while Mickey worked on Negro vote registration...
Chancy was one of Schwerner's most helpful aides. He was a slender Meridian Negro lad who had dropped out of high school as a sophomore, became a plasterer, eventually joined CORE. When COFO called for volunteer instructors for the Ohio training course, Chancy went with Schwerner...
...year tenure as president, Rose has profoundly improved the intellectual climate of the University of Alabama, and he has infused Alabamans with his own passion for a school that aspires. Rose was born in Meridian, Miss., with little else but aspirations. As a boy he picked cotton in the fields at 500 a day. His father died when he was ten. He drove soft-drink trucks and plowed fields to earn the money to go to Kentucky's Transylvania College, where he majored in philosophy and went on to get a bachelor of divinity degree...
...HOWARD B. KISHPAUGH Rector The Episcopal Church of the Mediator Meridian, Miss...
...field. Theologian Cohen, 34, writes of Judaism from the standpoint of the maskil-the Jewish sage who is outside the rabbinate. Although he studied at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary (as well as at Columbia and Chicago), Cohen is by profession a publisher; he founded the Meridian line of quality paperbacks and now edits religious books for Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Cohen is a believing Jew who accepts neither the Orthodox, nor Conservative nor Reform label. He is an editor of the intellectual quarterly Judaism, but just as often writes for the Christian Century...