Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jimmie Jackson was eulogized by civil rights leaders as another martyr to the cause. At the first of two crowded funeral services, 1,000 Negroes jammed into a church in nearby Selma, site of Martin Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
Some churchmen are figuring out other new ways to take the lentitude out of Lent. Operating on the sound theory that suburban commuters have no time to attend Lenten church services, the Rev. Craig Biddle III of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, N.J., took his services to the commuter. With full permission from the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, he turned the last car on the 7:17 to Manhattan into a chapel, held an Ash Wednesday service for more than 100 commuters. It was such a success that Biddle hopes to conduct similar worship-on-wheels every Thursday...
...hundred students and Faculty members from the Divinity School signed a covenant yesterday pledging "our time, our treasures, and if needs be ourselves," to assist the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his struggle for "full human rights throughout the land...
Five Harvard professors and nine graduate students flew to Alabama Monday night to march from Selma to Montgomery with the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Both efforts to paraphrase the Bible in reform-school jargon were inspired by the Rev. Carl F. Burke, 45, the detention home's Protestant chaplain, who believes that the language of the Gospel is puzzling and irrelevant to children from urban slums. Burke formed this opinion at a summer camp for delinquents, when he tried to explain to a boy from a broken home that God was like a father. "Oh, yeah?" the boy answered. "If he's anything like my old man, I hate...