Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial in Montgomery was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leader of the Negro boycott against the Montgomery bus company (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.}. King was the first of 90 defendants (including 24 ministers) to be tried under an Alabama law (enacted in 1921 as an antilabor measure) making it a misdemeanor to conspire "without a just cause or legal excuse" to hinder any company in its conduct of business...
...Autherine Lucy, first suspended and then expelled from the University of Alabama as its celebrated first Negro student, announced that she would reapply for admission after her spring wedding to the Rev. Howard Foster, 27, a childhood friend from Shiloh, Miss. "I have a feeling I would be accepted by the majority of students at Alabama," she said. If the university still refuses her admission, she will apply at another school...
Leaders of the three major faiths and some of the nation's most prominent psychiatrists are taking part in this movement and met in New York yesterday to open the new academy formally. The Rev. George C. Anderson, executive director of the academy, said that planning has been under way about three years...
...churchmen were equally aware of how sharply religion's role has been limited by the Communists. Said the Rev. Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, head of the National Council's Department of International Affairs: "It's pathetic that the only role religion can play here is to help relieve the drudgery of life for the people from...
...total of 90 Alabama Negroes were indicted on Feb. 21, for illegally boycotting the privately-owned bus company in Montgomery. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the first of the Negroes to come to trial, was convicted on the charge yesterday by Circuit Judge Eugene W. Carter. He was fined $500, plus $500 court costs. The defense counsel announced that the decision would be appealed...