Word: methodist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, Humphrey demonstrated his still-considerable hold on older, middle-class Negroes when he went before 5,000 delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
Erasing the Vestiges. The United Methodist Church inherits by necessity the problems of the Methodist Church, most significantly its racially segregated organization.* White-run Methodist churches in the South have been al lowed by their denomination to bar Negroes from membership; as a result, Southern communities often have separate white and Negro Methodist congregations. The new denomination eliminates the Central Jurisdiction, a euphemism for a segregated administrative arm that has overseen most Negro Methodist churches. But it still retains ten all-Negro Methodist conferences in the South as separately administered units. The planners of the new church body have...
Although Methodism has been slow to involve itself in contemporary social issues, m recent years politically-minded activists have attained increasing influence in both the Methodist Church and the E.U.B. Delegates to the uniting conference approved a resolution to raise $20,000,000 during the next year for aid to the poor...
...week's end the conference elected Methodist Bishop Eugene M. Frank of Missouri president of the Council of Bishops of the new church. Said Frank: "This is a new church. That is not to say that it is perfect, but anyone who thinks that honest and sometimes wrenching efforts were not made to open up the new Methodist Church is mistaken. The old churches were patronizing at their best as concerns the racial issue. The new church is energetically and sacrificially dedicated to making Christlike brotherhood real. There will be foot-dragging and agonized cries from those...
...included in the merger is the Southern Methodist Church, a small branch of Methodism that boasts some 10,000 members, mostly in South Carolina. Southern Methodist University was founded by the Methodist Church, and the term Southern refers to its geographical location, not its affiliation...