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There are several other homeless shelters in the Boston area. Shelter, Incorporated, a private organization, operates a shelter in Boston and one in Cambridge and plans on opening a third in Cambridge. Two other shelters are open in Boston, according to Pastor Fred Reese of the University Lutheran Church. These are frequented by street alcoholics and drug users, making them undesirable to many street people...
Jackson was elected president of N.B.C.U.S.A. in 1953, succeeding Jemison's blind and aged father D.V. Jemison, a pastor in Mobile, Ala. As the civil rights revolution began, Jackson hailed the use of lawsuits, but he steadfastly opposed mass protests and the civil disobedience campaigns favored by King and his followers. Jackson's critics say that he envied King's growing fame; his sympathizers say that he was morally offended by disobedience to the law. As Jackson complained in 1982, in what turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been...
...awkward one for T.J. Jemison. As Coretta King informed the roaring crowd in Los Angeles last week, her late husband had sought Jemison's counsel before launching the famous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and with good reason Two and a half years earlier, Jemison, as the young pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., had organized the nation's first bus boycott. His campaign forced the city to integrate seating in its transportation system in just eight days...
Jemison, who remains as pastor of the Mount Zion Church, is trying hard to tap the vast potential of his large but loosely organized and ill-financed denomination. He is moving younger men into key positions and offering women a bigger role. Jemison has dispatched full delegations for the first time in years to meetings of the National and World Councils of Churches. He also hopes to rouse the 26,000 local congregations, concentrated in the South, into mounting an evangelistic crusade to win 3 million new adherents. Not so incidentally, they would also be registered as voters...
...domestic crisis. Out of work and spurned by her alcoholic mother, Chapin spent the next 15 years in a twilight zone of casual sex, drugs and jail for forgery. Then, one epochal day, she walked into the Eagle's Nest church in Irvine, Calif. She recalls, "When the pastor said, 'Now if anybody here wants to give their life to the Lord, please stand up and come to the altar,' I didn't hesitate. That was it." She now has a new life as an evangelist. These days, Chapin is more concerned with the human family...