Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Judge Hare addressed an allwhite, 18-member Selma grand jury investigating the March 9 murder of Boston's Rev. James J. Reeb. After the jury heard testimony from ten witnesses, Hare began his charge by reviewing Selma's problems for the past two years and attributing them all to the fact that a cabal of civil rights groups, the Justice Department and the Department of the Army had "selected Selma for assassination back in the fall...
...going to have one of the greatest marches tomorrow that has ever taken place in the United States," the Rev. Martin Luther King told cheering crowds in Roxbury yesterday afternoon...
...Rev. Martin Luther King will arrive in Boston this morning for a 30-hour double-shooting mission...
However, School Committee chairman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks yesterday requested for the second time a request made by the Rev. Virgil Wood, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the southern Christian Leadership Conference for a meeting with King and a elegation of local civil rights leaders. Mrs. Hicks had said earlier she would meet with King but not persons who were "not the true leaders of the people...
...troublesome ministers or priests he could not drive out of the country, he simply arrested and expelled. Last week, in one of his most far-reaching and irrational purges of the clergy to date, Castro jailed 40 Baptist ministers and 13 Baptist laymen, including two Americans: the Rev. Herbert Caudill, 61, a missionary in Cuba for 35 years and head of the 9,000-member Baptist Convention of Western Cuba, and Caudill's son-in-law, the Rev. James David Fite, 31, who has been in Cuba since 1960. They joined seven other Baptist ministers - none of them Americans...