Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was abed with a bad cold. Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma, Ala., was down with "exhaustion." But both men arose last week to renew their bitter civil rights struggle...
...Evil Man." Next day Clark had his own sort of inning. About 25 Negroes were kept waiting outside the courthouse in a drenching rain. Clark appeared, read a court order forbidding demonstrations. The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a close King associate, berated Clark! "Maybe you're not as bad as Hitler," he shouted, "but you are an evil man!" Whereupon Clark knocked him, mouth bloodied, to the ground. Said Clark later: "If I hit him, I don't know it. One of the first things I ever learned was not to hit a nigger with your fist because...
...Though modest in size," wrote Buffalo Lawyer Robert B. Fleming, the C.C.C.L. boasts Notre Dame's Law School Dean Joseph O'Meara, Massachusetts' former Attorney General Edward J. McCormack and the Rev. Benjamin L. Masse, associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Though it hardly speaks for the church, "hopefully it speaks for a Catholic point of view...
...Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a one-day conference Monday on "The Church and the "New Morality.'" Over 200 Protestant ministers will attend public lectures in Lowell Lecture Hall. Among the speakers will be the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. University Chaplin at Yale, opening address (9 a.m.), and Paul Ramsey, professor of Ethics at Princeton, "Sexual Relations Outside Marriage...
Whenever one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's nonviolent civil rights drives is met by white nonviolence, the result is something like driving a tack into a marshmallow: there is very little impact. That was what happened last week in Montgomery...