Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paramount Issue. Though both candidates played down any reference to it last week, Jack Kennedy's religion continued to be the paramount issue. The Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia, said he would rather not vote for a Roman Catholic, but retired Bishop Robert E. L. Strider, Dr. Campbell's predecessor, gave Kennedy his warm endorsement. Anti-Catholic pressures and threats forced a Kennedy worker to stop distributing literature and with draw from the campaign in tiny Parsons...
...REV.) JOHN R. YOUNG High Bridge Reformed Church High Bridge...
...spread without any help from whites, 142 sit-in leaders from eleven Southern states and the District of Columbia met in Raleigh. N.C., voted to set up a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, with headquarters in Atlanta. The delegates pledged themselves to accept jail before bail if arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President Stephen J. Wright summed up the protest movement...
Last week school officials met to debate the matter. "Perhaps children should be made aware of possible disaster," said the Rev. Alan Clark, dean of Burnley. "But I do feel they should be spared undue emotional stress." Headmaster Rowland Williams, an old soldier, refused to censure Vernon: "I fully support him. There is no harm in children's being brought face to face with reality...
Prophet Sharing. In Melbourne, thieves broke open the Rev. Alfred Bligh's safe, found only notes for a sermon titled "Will...