Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that would have dispatched federal troops to Alabama on a moment's notice. It was a week of intense pressures and back-room dealings, of quick emotionalism and easily achieved righteousness. And it was a very trying week for the foremost leader of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Memorial services will be held today for the Rev. James Reeb at the Arlington Street Church at 355 Boylston St. The services will begin at 12:15 p.m. and will be conducted by the Rev. Jack Mendelson. Governor John A. Volpe and Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 will attend...
...Sunday, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference plan to hold a rally in the Boston Common. There will be speeches by people just returned from Selma and a memorial service for the Rev. James J. Reeb. who died Thursday...
...Instead of 40. Another proposal for updating Lent came from the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York. "It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age," he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. "The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious establishments. The lengthy services with their glorious lessons have become unrealistic for men and women catching commuters' trains. The quiet pace of a 17th century Lent is impossible for people living in 20th century New York. I would gladly see Lent shortened...
...Rev. James J. Reeb, a Boston minister who was attacked by a white gang Tuesday in Selma, Alabama died last night of multiple skull fractures...