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...disquieting conscience of the whites. That voice in turn has infused the Negroes themselves with the fiber that gives their revolution its true stature. In Los Angeles recently, King finished a talk by saying: "I say good night to you by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who said, 'We ain't what we ought to be and we ain't what we want to be and we ain't what we're going to be. But thank God, we ain't what...
Mencken had never met the King family of Atlanta. King's maternal grandfather, the Rev. A. D. Williams, was one of Georgia's first N.A.A.C.P. leaders, helped organize a boycott against an Atlanta newspaper that had disparaged Negro voters. His preacher father was in the forefront of civil rights battles aimed at securing equal salaries for Negro teachers and the abolition of Jim Crow elevators in the Atlanta courthouse...
...Your article is the most conclusive proof that the Holy Bible is true history. It should make any skeptic stop and listen when Billy Graham or any preacher begins a statement with "The Bible says...
Sunday Service. Getting Powell to pay has become almost a sport for Attorney Rubin and bystanders. In one series of moves starting in April, Rubin obtained a subpoena to examine Powell's financial records. But subpoenas in noncriminal cases cannot be served on Sunday, the only day Preacher Powell can readily be found in New York. Finally nailed at the end of summer, he nonetheless failed to show up in a state Supreme Court. Rubin then started contempt of court proceedings; once more, Powell ducked court orders until a U.S. marshal caught up with him two months later...
...Once he was here, walking the same streets and paths which you and I walk, sitting in the same classrooms, perhaps reading the same books in Widener," said Rev. Charles P. Price, University preacher. "Now he has died for his country and we died a little when he died...