Word: preacher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conspiring to destroy law and order and fomenting the racial strife that caused the death of his fellow preacher, James Reeb, King should now be indicted for murder...
...Church, dark and scrawny the day before, was fat with happy humanity. De Lawd had called and everyone had come--the old wrinkled women, the young, prim schoolgirls, the respected morticians, and the baggy-eyed drunks. Brightly painted umbrellas twirled in the foggy sunlight as on each doorstep a preacher stood and taught nonviolence and the ways of peace...
...crowd sang and clapped for four hours, as the wind and rain swirled into a minor tornado. The temperature dropped into the low 40s but they all stayed. An old preacher pulled me under his umbrella. "You gonna freeze, be said. We linked arms and sang to keep warm. Up front a fat Negro boy in blue overalls led the chanting, bellowing and smiling into a huge red megaphone. A small boy near me started shivering. Finally a spasm of exhaustion shook through him and he fell face down in a puddle. His father picked him up and straightened...
...free," lisped an old farmer nearly. "I'see free." The preacher whose umberalla I shared leaned over and whispered "That Sam Paris. First time for him. He's been a Tom. But everybody's joinin now. Everybody." I asked why "Because of Dr. King, that's why," the preacher said. "Is that all?" I asked "Yessir," he said, for now, at least, that...
...Charles P. Price, preacher to the University and lecturer on Pastoral Theology, will give a new Humanities course in Christian Thought. Although the themes "faith and reason, good and , and freedom" will be examined within a historical perspective, special attention will be paid to major developments within the Christian Church...