Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been used before," the 21-hour program seemed rather familiar. Correspondents skipped breathlessly across the mayoralty-campaign battlegrounds of Gary, Cleveland and Boston, concentrating on the racist atmosphere. The commercial networks had been there before, and about as thoroughly. A raw one-act satire about racial attitudes in the south-Day of Absence, by Negro Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward-was allowed to run from here to eternity: 60 minutes...
...came most powerfully to life during a "confrontation"-a free-for-all discussion of racial antagonisms in which "someone in that crowd represents you." A group of 100 unrehearsed whites and Negroes gathered in a Chicago studio to blast away at one another. A Negro evangelical preacher reported that "our program is to try to solve the problem with love." "When he says Christian love," snorted Black Revolutionary Russ Meek, "he means Uncle Tomism! You're a disgrace to the race!" A Negro adolescent follower of Meek said: "I'm for violence, because we have pleaded...
...Christianity could do far more than it already has to assist the Negro. Reflecting the need for further action, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, General of the Society of Jesus, sent a twelve-page letter to American Jesuits, accusing them of failing to do enough for the Negro. "The racial crisis involves, before all else," wrote Arrupe, "a direct challenge to our sincerity in professing a Christian concept of man." Arrupe laid down a series of suggestions for U.S. Jesuits, including the creation of new missions in urban ghettos. He also ordered each superior to draw up a specific plan...
...next target of Black Power is the churches. In a speech to a meeting of white ministers in New York City recently, Floyd McKissick, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, announced that a major project of Negro militants is to expose "those who prostitute the church." McKissick charged that predominantly white denominations have used comparatively little of their tax-exempt financial resources to aid the Negro, and warned that they must "reevaluate themselves in terms of Black Power and the needs of black men." CORE plans to publicize what it considers disparities between church preaching and practice...
...some churches, there are already indications that Negro members are no longer content to be seen but not heard. An example is the Unitarian-Universalist Association-traditionally noted for its equality-flavored pronouncements on race. At a meeting of 200 Unitarians in Manhattan last month to discuss racial problems, 31 Negro delegates held a separate caucus, accusing their church of denying Negroes fair representation in leadership positions...