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Reverse Backlash. In Nashville one parishioner canceled a $500 pledge to Calvary Methodist Church after the pastor, the Rev. Sam R. Dodson Jr., led a protest march of ministers against segregation; another layman at once raised his pledge by $500. In Alabama, when one Presbyterian church cut off the minister's car allowance because he had helped out-of-state civil rights demonstrators, a group of laymen within the church formed a committee to make up the difference out of their own pockets. Presbyterian Frank H. Stroup, chief executive of the Philadelphia presbytery, acknowledges opposition to his church...
...Vincent Kelly, pastor of Mission Hill Church, outlined the "latest encroachments by the Harvard group on our neighborhood." He was referring to a proposal to build a blood research center which would be part of a new medical complex to be built on the land the Boston Redevelopment Authority proposes to redevelop...
Since I am the agent of the United Ministry responsible in the area of Civil Rights, I am obligated to respond to any reasonable appeal for counsel or support from Harvard people or organizations. In my private capacity as a person and as Presbyterian University Pastor at Harvard I am wholeheartedly in support of ARFEP. I shall work for its program and I invite all who desire to seek peace to join me. Those who might disagree I invite to talk with me. This is the most important issue since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Richard E. Mumma
...content with demonstrations, the Freedom Committee got a court injunction restraining Shuttlesworth from spending any more church money, and filed suit for an accounting of Revelation's funds since he became pastor. Shuttlesworth hit back with a court order of his own, restraining the dissident leaders from disrupting any more Sunday services. He charges that the fuss is all part of a right-wing plot, fostered by the dissidents' white lawyer, to discredit the civil rights movement...
...answers the Freedom Committee: the issues are simply Shuttlesworth's one-man rule over church finances, and the question of how much time he should spend away from church working for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The accusations stagger Pastor Shuttlesworth. "If I'm a dictator, I'm a benevolent one," he says. "I sleep with the parishioners on my mind, thinking of their misdeeds and the evil in their hearts...