Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk about than the problem that plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your preacher." And he propounded eight "reasons why it is not Christian" to invite Negroes into white churches: !) Negroes have their own churches, 2) Negroes don't invite...
...Editor Edward A. Byersdorff of the official publication of the Lutheran Men in America of Wisconsin, suggested that churches jointly hire psychiatrists to help out their pastors, who face "a constant parade of marital, emotional and mental problems . . . While these problems give the pastor an opportunity for a most personal ministry ... it should be recognized that such people frequently need a psychiatrist as well as a pastor . . . Without in any way attempting to minimize the power of the word, or prayer, or comfort that a pastor can bring ... it is obvious that the pastor alone cannot cope with...
After only a few days of Texan Allen's ingratiating techniques, Japanese Baptists were impressed. Said one Tokyo pastor: "We're going to have to shift gears in our thinking...
...prosecution concentrated on proving that the Montgomery Improvement Association, with Pastor King as president, was organized last Dec. 5, the day the bus boycott began, for the specific purpose of supporting the boycott and forcing Negro demands on the bus company. The defense aim was to prove, within the meaning of the statute, that the Negro protest against Jim Crow practices on the buses was just...
Montgomery City Lines' Manager J. H. Bagley said the boycott had been about 95% effective among Negroes, testified that Pastor King had acted as the Negro spokesman in negotiations with the bus company. Other witnesses told of strong-arm efforts to enforce the boycott: seven company drivers said their buses had been stoned or shot at; Courthouse Janitor Ernest Smith said another Negro had threatened to "whip me" for riding a bus. Smith, a 200-pounder, said he knocked the man down and kept on bus riding. Defendant King was not linked to any of the violence; rather...