Word: pastorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pastor...
Assistant Pastor...
...reached 82° F. By 10:30 a.m., the nominal starting time, more than 35,000 Negroes and whites from as far away as Los Angeles and Boston had packed the side streets around the red brick Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue, where King had served as co-pastor with his father for eight years...
King had the widest following of any black leader, but even he could claim nothing like universal loyalty. Though he was admired and respected by the vast majority of Negroes, his real influence was largely limited to the South, where the Negro pastor has traditionally had a strong hold on his flock (see RELIGION) and where King could point to concrete victories as legal segregation was progressively being abolished. In the North, where racial attitudes are subtler and the Negroes' plight is largely one of economic deprivation, he never achieved comparable success...
...Reverends. Even after the abolition of slavery, the church was for decades the only place where the Negro could participate in any kind of real community life. The pastor-as the only Negro not dependent on the white man for his pay-also became the natural community leader. This is still true of the South. The vast majority of Southern Negroes are enrolled members of churches, and the civil rights movement has been led in great measure by men with "the Rev." before their names...