Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlem, the broken-or no-home kids and the seething out-of-job adults, were bristling for a fight. It was hot and humid. Scores of people gathered for an outdoor protest rally called by three local chapters of Congress of Racial Equality. After harangues by CORE leaders, the Rev. Nelson C. Dukes, pastor of Harlem's Fountain Spring Baptist Church, and a veteran agitator, launched into a 20-minute call for action, exhorting everyone to march on the local police precinct station to present their "demands." "Let's go! Let's do it now!" cried...
Most Harlemites are convinced that the cops turn their backs on such rackets for a price. And this conviction vastly complicates the problem of policing Harlem. What happened last week, said the Rev. Richard A. Hildebrand, head of New York's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, was "the explosion of a total community resentment, deeply rooted in the absence of respect on the part of Harlem citizens for the cop on the beat, whom they see in far too many compromising situations...
Even so, says the Rev. Dr. M. Moran Weston, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem, "there are a lot of natural leaders out on those streets. Somebody just needs to help them." Weston's church, for one, is helping by offering basketball and music, field trips and job placement services to 500 children a day. Some 150 social services are also at work in Harlem, spending as much as $10 million a year...
Methodist wheels are grinding slowly toward integration even in the South. At Dallas, the regional conference asked for integration, and called upon the Council of Bishops to provide a Negro bishop as soon as the goal is achieved. White Methodist ministers in Dallas helped elect the Rev. Zan W. Holmes Jr., a Negro, to the presidency of the interdenominational Dallas Pastors' Association. Bishop John Wesley Lord of Washington will probably include three or four Negroes among twelve superintendents he will appoint next June...
Long Way to Go. "Methodism has taken an enormous leap forward," says the Rev. Ralph L. Roy, a leader of the reform-minded group called Methodists for Church Renewal, but "there is a long way to go." Most individual congregations remain segregated in practice, largely because of housing patterns. Moreover, few white churches are willing to accept a Negro pastor, and not many bishops seem ready yet to put their followers to that kind of test. Yet with Negroes joining the ranks of what Roy calls "the power people," that may soon change: "Where Negroes are bishops, they...