Word: pressey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about Alabama, says the Rev. Harvey Hollis of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "we always arrive back here." The most striking aspect of the Selma spirit is the consensus, expressed by Episcopal Rector Stephen Pressey of Shelby, Ohio, that "ministers are missing the boat if all they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox...