Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gasping the acid, insufficient air, For this we labored through a rainy night Tired and frozen, up each cinder stair, Without the proper formula for prayer; But blind, not simply mothlike, toward no light...
...march on city hall, 2,000 Negroes took to the streets, throwing rocks and bottles at police and white crowds. In the back streets of Albany, King pleaded with his fellow Negroes and called for a day of penance to atone for their riot. Next day, after leading a prayer meeting outside city hall, King and nine others were thrown into jail, and for days afterward Albany teetered on the brink of riot...
...said one, "especially if it's raining." A man joined them. "Got up about noon," he said. "Went down to Williams Park and read the paper. Went home and took a nap. Ate at the Driftwood-soup, roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes. JellO, coffee for $1.25. Went to prayer meeting. Heard a lecture. Moseyed out here to see who's here...
...himself out if we buried him. I bet he could. But if he could, he didn't. Oscar says to me. he says 'What do people do with dead bodies?' " Still, she is a properly brought up little girl, and she ends every chapter with a prayer. The one that closes the chapter about her garden party (at which the bishop drank a triple julep and she danced with some little colored boys) goes like this: "Oh ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps. Bless ye the Lord. Praise...
...Supreme Court has just deconsecrated the nation," declared California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 49, adding that the court's decision against a New York State law requiring a daily prayer in public schools was tantamount to setting up a secular state religion-of "time and history, but not eternity." Moreover, it perverted the spirit and intent of the Constitution's First Amendment, and nothing short of another Amendment would right the wrong...