Word: migrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moral Issue. When the strike began, Chávez could count on the sympathy of only a few churchmen, mostly the radical young Protestants of the California Migrant Ministry. Gradually, more influential Christian leaders came to see in the strike a moral issue: the need to end the grapes-of-wrath poverty of the farm workers...
...Music & Migrants. Also growing in popularity is a shorter-term midwinter period in which classes are suspended and entire student bodies spend a month (usually January) in wide-ranging individual research. This innovation was pioneered by Florida Presbyterian and Colby, has spread to Colgate and about 20 other colleges. The variety of projects is limitless. A group of Colgate students went to Jamaica to study tropical-island biology. A Florida Presbyterian student went to work in a migrant-labor camp...
...admissions office, they are recipients of so-called "gamble-fund" scholarships--grants that since 1957 have brought at least 200 high school seniors with rock-bottom College Board scores and difficult back-grounds to Harvard. The students have come from urban slums, un-accredited Southern high schools, and migrant camps. Their parents, most likely, never finished high school and may have openly discouraged their going to any college, much less Harvard...
Living the Gospel. Whether the three-month-old strike, staged to get union recognition for grape pickers, is the Christian churches' business has become a dominant issue around Delano. Protagonist for involvement is the 20-year-old California Migrant Ministry, an interdenominational group supported by many local congregations and councils of churches, and until lately a welfare organization. United Presbyterian Minister Wayne C. Hartmire, 33, is the director of the ministry. He argues that "the job of the church is to make Christian love real and powerful in the lives of men. You cannot live the Gospel without getting...
...product of his methods is at least double. Coles seeks to learn from Negroes, migrant workers, and Southerners generally, how men -- often "ordinary" men -- confront oppression and change. Their struggle for opportunities and for education in turn implies cures for the unjust, exploitative situation from which their troubles spring...