Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most enlightened cities. But it was remarkable even for Atlanta that some 750 whites, including most civic and business leaders, should gather last week with about the same number of Negroes to honor the man whose name is synonymous with progress in the U.S. civil rights movement-the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...trumpets blared, the procession of robed clerics marched slowly through the crowded nave of Washington's vaulted Gothic National Cathedral. In side the chancel, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger addressed the stocky, grey-haired cleric who succeeds him as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church: "I, Arthur, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, John, into the office of Presiding Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors, and privileges. May our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth forevermore. Amen...
According to both parties, the meeting brought no significant change in the situation. Carey said that only after a meeting between President Pusey and MUNIT (Mission United Neighborhood Improvement Team) leader Rev. Vincent Kelly would he have additional comments...
...begin the 1965 civil rights drive, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King chose the town of Selma (pop. 29,500), deep in Alabama's black belt. It was a deliberate choice - and it brought results, up to a point...
...Baton Rouge, in 1961, police arrested 23 students of Southern (Negro) University for picketing segregated lunch counters. Next day, the Rev. B. Elton Cox, a Congregationalist minister and CORE worker, led 2,000 more students to the courthouse for a peaceful demonstration against the arrests. Cox figured he had permission because Police Chief Wingate White had told him to "confine" his demonstrators to the opposite side of the street...