Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REV.) DAVID A. WORKS Boston
...their determined mothers into once all-white schools as police held off spectators. In Gainesboro, Tenn., Peggy Williams, 13, not only became the first Negro in the town's elementary school, but her 30 white classmates elected her president of their eighth-grade home room. In Atlanta, the Rev. Martin Luther King's children, Yolanda and Martin Luther King III, who had previously attended all-Negro public schools, integrated Atlanta's Spring Street public school. "Several parents welcomed us and said how happy they were to see us," said Mrs. King...
...Houston's Temple Emanu-El. "I don't want the Government to dictate policy in my church or synagogue." Chicago's Bishop Montgomery, who basically favors church-state cooperation, nonetheless says that there should be "watchful vigilance," lest the church become "just another social agency." The Rev. Dean Kelley of the National Council of Churches also worries that U.S. Christianity may become so involved in social projects that it runs the risk of becoming just another client of government. "The greatest function of the modern church," he says, "is that of focusing moral power, not exercising public...
...Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 43, for years a top deputy to Martin Luther King, is an old hand at organizing nonviolent demonstrations. But he isn't quite so skilled at dispersing them-at least when they happen in his own church. Last week, for the second Sunday in a row, Cincinnati police were called out because of disorders during the services at Shuttlesworth's all-Negro Revelation Baptist Church. The troublemakers were not marauding whites, but a "Freedom Committee" of dissident church members who object to Shuttlesworth's "dictatorial" ways...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...