Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core of the racial situation in the United States lies in the all-white residential communities that circle our cities," said the Rev. Marshal Scott of Chicago, moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. "It is precisely in those neighborhoods where Presbyterianism flourishes that the center of the evil lives...
...They unanimously voted to set up a commission on religion and race, with a first-year budget of $500,000. It will work with other denominations in stamping out segregation in churches, assist individual ministers in combatting prejudice among parishioners. The assembly's stand on race, exulted the Rev. Edler Hawkins, a Negro and pastor of St. Augustine's Church in The Bronx, is "tremendously significant. It gives the church the ability to move together for the first time...
...Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlanta integration leader who started the massive Birmingham demonstrations six weeks ago, pleaded for peace in a pilgrimage through Negro district pool halls. Facing embarrassed pool sharks, he said, "We want to thank you for taking time off from your pool game to listen to us. We must make it clear that it is possible to fight against all this evil without having to resort to violence." And at another meeting. King shouted: "Violence is immoral, but not only that-violence is impractical...
...Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message for modern times...
...wither and die of a quaint unreality. Last week in Kansas City. 12,670 "messengers" to the annual assembly of the 10,200,000-member church reflected this split by electing a conservative president and passing a string of liberally oriented resolutions. Frontrunner, as the assembly opened, was the Rev. Carl Bates of Charlotte. N.C., who seemed to have doubts about the oldtime conservative religion: "Laymen have a sneaking suspicion that the Kingdom of God is more than ushering on Sundays." He agreed to be nominated, then suddenly withdrew his candidacy. His reason: he had searched his heart and found...