Word: nonactivists
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...revolution moved relentlessly forward last week, the most significant development was that the white clergy, which in the past has played a sympathetic but generally nonactivist part, threw itself wholeheartedly, and even physically, into the struggle. Priests and ministers, rabbis and rectors were on the march. The U.S.'s foremost Presbyterian official was jailed-along with other church leaders of different denominations. Nuns appeared on civil rights picket lines. Several thousand miles from the U.S., in Vatican City, Pope Paul VI expressed his keen interest and concern for the civil rights struggle in America. He told visiting President John...