Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 4 story misrepresents the Des Moines Register's coverage of news about race discrimination in Iowa. I did not tell Grover Hall of the Montgomery Advertiser that the problem of race discrimination "does not exist" in Iowa. In commenting on Hall's barbs at the Northern press, I said that our problem in Iowa admittedly was smaller than his in Alabama, but that we had covered thoroughly, as important news, race discrimination in this state. The Register has been saying editorially for many years that Northerners have a "moral blind spot" on race discrimination...
...baptized. Even in the rainy season, they were coming by the hundreds. The pennies they bring her have mounted into a sizable treasury presided over by her fanatical husband Petrus, who, some say, is the power behind Lenshina. And the Presbyterian mission of Lubwa, the oldest in Northern Rhodesia, is on its last legs...
...rainy season is over, and this week along the roads and trails and bicycle tracks of Northern Rhodesia, thousands of Africans are trudging through the bush to a clump of 20-odd huts called the village of Kasomo. They come from as far as 400 miles away to see and hear a plump, 32-year-old native woman and be baptized by her in the name of God-the black man's God. Her name is Lenshina Mulenga, and her magnetic hold on the people around Kasomo is confounding Christian missionaries there...
...them at shrines built for the purpose in her village, there were soon high piles of teeth, fur scraps, beads and symbolic axes for killing devils. Nervously, the Presbyterian mission sent word to the home office that a new threat to Christianity, "the Cult of Alice," had appeared in Northern Rhodesia...
...tribes of Northern Rhodesia have lived in a broken society since the white district commissioners weakened the authority of the tribal chiefs. White authorities and missions dealt with witchcraft as though it did not exist; Lenshina Mulenga fights it effectively, gives natives the sense of belonging to their own church, where salvation is in the here...